The Socio-Emotional Learning in School: The Views of Educational Leaders
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https://doi.org/10.48017/dj.v11iSpecial_1.3738Keywords:
Strategies of Principals,, School Culture, Compassionate Campuses, ConduciveAbstract
The goal of promoting students' social skills is to enhance social emotional learning (SEL) in the classroom. The main topic of this research is the strategies employed by junior high school principals to foster an SEL-friendly school culture and create a compassionate campus. This research is intended to collect SEL baseline data from five (5) junior high school administrators in District 1 in the Division of Manila. Data was collected using a validated interview questionnaire sent by Google form and a direct interview using a structured questionnaire. Qualitative data was sorted and analyzed using Braun and Clarke (2019) thematic analysis framework. Furthermore, the findings of the research revealed that the principals of the Public Secondary schools in the Division of Manila identified their roles as managers and enhancers of the emotional quotients and skills of the teachers, promoting their positive mindset, optimism, and reflecting with oneself and others. Principals took into various consideration methods that can help in making SEL embedded in the daily routine, practices, and policies of their schools by taking positive steps for the implementation of SEL. Furthermore, the identified challenges met by the principals in the implementation of SEL in the curriculum were stated to be lack of resources, lack of adequate training of teachers, and time constraints. The study proposed an SEL challenge navigating manual which was designed by the researcher to address the results and findings of this study.
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