http://www.edutopia.org/richard-davidson-sel-brain-video
I do not know what social-emotional learning is. But from what Richard Davidson talks about it is that it is a learning style to deal with how to deal with your emotions. His idea of brain plasticity and how social-emotional learning changes the brain's structure and function can have huge effects on Special Education. I would say the area that it would most affect is Emotional Behavioral Disorders (EBD) because according to Davidson, the brain is like plastic, and can be changed. You can teach a student with EBD how to deal and express their emotions in a positive way and that will affect their brain.
His proof of linking stress to lower memory is a huge thing in Special Education as well. He believes that if you lower the stress enough, a student's cognition will improve. This is huge for the area of Developmental Cognitive Delay (DCD) because if it is possible to have the student function highly, then why would teachers not teach students social-emotional learning?
In this field of special education, we can not afford to half-buttox our job. If there is something that can help a student for the rest of their lives, why would we not do it? Granted, it takes time that we want to do something else, but is that a good enough excuse? If you know that if you put in 10 more hours a week for 4 weeks and that will help a student with DCD or EBD and that by doing this it will help keep that student with EBD out of the Juvenile Justice System or help improve the cognition of the student with DCD so that they don't have to be taken care of in a group home? Why would any of us not do that?
Granted, we don't know if our work is going to bring about any positive results, but there is always a possibility that it will. And if you ask me, I would go without sleep for days if it means helping a student.
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