[ART CLASS CURATOR] Boost Student Engagement and Success with Social-Emotional Learning with Jeffrey Benson

This episode is part of the former Art Class Curator podcast and is specifically for art teachers.  - The percentage of U.S. students who graduate from high school has never been higher in our history. But have schools ever been structured, resourced, or intended to educate everybody’s child? During Jeffrey Benson’s time as a teacher, mentor, and administrator for over 40 years, he worked with neglected, abused, traumatized, and autistic students who struggled with mainstream education. He now focuses on helping schools be more successful with more students through a better understanding of how people learn. In this episode, he and I discuss social-emotional learning and how to use it to improve your lesson planning and boost your students’ engagement for greater success. 2:21​ - Jeffrey’s background and the unorthodox way his imagination helped him make lesson plans 7:18 - Exploring the meaningful question from Jeffrey’s webinar that I loved 11:26 - How Jeffrey defines social-emotional learning and its main characteristics 16:06 - So many examples of how Jeffrey would incorporate SEL into an art lesson 29:43 - The value of praising versus redirecting students in class 35:28 - Digging into the idea of positioning yourself as a learner while teaching 38:41 - Advice to help you be more intentional about adding SEL elements into your lesson plans 41:39 - Other simple ways you can intentionally put social-emotional learning at the forefront 45:55 - Jeffrey’s SEl recommendations for teachers 49:07 - The artwork that changed Jeffrey’s perspective on art Transcript at https://artclasscurator.com/80