Modelling social and Emotional Learning: Promoting protective factors to support pupil wellbeing

Ask any teacher right now about pupil wellbeing and mental health and you will hear mix of concern for some pupils and positive progress for others. The EEF’s Moving Forwards school planning document includes a wider strategies section which recommends the explicit teaching of Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)as an important protective factor for children’s wellbeing and part of teachers’ ongoing support for their pupils in the wake of Covid-19.