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Sudeyko, Darcey Rae

This project examines ways in which the Roots of Empathy program can be used to support social and emotional learning (SEL) in kindergarten. It is designed to demonstrate to parents the importance of SEL for their children’s future success in school and in life, and it includes an interactive workshop that provides parents with examples of how the Roots of Empathy program is used as a catalyst for supporting their child’s social emotional development in kindergarten. Roots of Empathy (ROE) is a universal, classroom-based social emotional competence program developed for use with children in Kindergarten through grade eight. This project reviews the literature in the following areas: the effectiveness of ROE; children’s SEL and future success, and SEL and brain development. Research demonstrates consistent results - children who receive SEL programming demonstrate significant improvements in social and emotional skills, attitudes, behaviour and self-regulatory functions, as well as an 11% gain in academic achievement. The project explores how Roots of Empathy can be expanded upon to offer SEL opportunities continuously and in a variety of classroom settings (not just during specific ROE lessons in the classroom), and how ROE supplements the BC Ministry of Education curriculum for social and emotional development in kindergarten. It provides an overview of classroom changes enacted to foster optimum SEL opportunities and demonstrates for parents the importance of SEL in their child’s classroom.

Graduating Project

eng

2013-10-21

CC0 1.0 Universal

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45314

UBCV

Graduate

DSpace