Social-emotional learning has become more popular than ever due to the pandemic. So popular that even the market will double by the year 2026 to provide digital education to all students. So let’s take a look at the six best websites to help assist teachers, community leaders, and parents when teaching their students and children social-emotional learning skills and strategies.
SEL Websites For Students K-12
Emotional ABC’s
This website is great for teaching students who struggle with regulating their emotions because it moves at the student’s pace. This website is great for children ages 4-11 and has different modules for each child to participate in that include a library of moody cards, matching games, card games, and unplugged activities. It even includes audio to some parts of the software for nonreaders and emergent readers so that they can easily follow instructions but most of the software requires elementary word recognition.
Flocabulary
One of my favorite other websites that we use at school is Flocabulary which is something that my students look forward to every day at school because it has a lot of engaging material. This website includes a various selection of social-emotional learning activities for children in grades K-12th grade.
rethink
This website is great for students in grades K-12th grade and focuses on the entire school community and promoting healthy and confident students and adults. This program offers a curriculum to develop self-awareness, self-management, responsible decision-making, relationship skills, and social awareness skills.
Harmony SEL
Harmony SEL is a social and emotional learning program for Pre-K-6 grade students, accessible online and at no cost. Harmony fosters knowledge, skills, and attitudes boys and girls need to develop healthy identities, create meaningful relationships, and engage productively by providing SEL learning resources, tools, and strategies.
Edutopia – Teach Social-Emotional Learning
This is a great website to help with any students in grades K-12th grade and even College students. As a Teacher, you can find and share resources for creating a healthy school culture by helping students develop skills to manage their emotions, resolve conflicts, and make responsible decisions.
everFI
This website is another great resource for teaching children who struggle with behavior and emotions social-emotional learning skills and strategies. Still, a verily new program is great for students in grades K-12th grade and supports teachers, parents, and community leaders. EVERFI’s lesson library and free social & emotional learning curriculum help your students develop stronger self-management, interpersonal skills, and responsible decision-making.
Conclusion
Overall, each program is different even though they all serve the same purpose which is helping students with the 5 components of social-emotional learning. As a Teacher or parent, you just need to decide what works best for your child and student because each child is also different. As the world continues to surge through COVID-19 just keep in mind our student’s mental needs in and outside of the classrooms.
