Title The Development of Teachers\' and Their Students\' Social and Emotional Learning During the "Learning to Be Project"-Training Course in Five European Countries
Authors Berg, Minna , Talvio, Markus , Hietajarvi, Lauri , BENÍTEZ BAENA, ISABEL, Cavioni, Valeria , Conte, Elisabetta , CUADRADO MÉNDEZ, FRANCISCO JOSÉ, Ferreira, Marco , Kosir, Matej , Martinsone, Baiba , Ornaghi, Veronica , Raudiene, Irena , Sukyte, Daiva , Talic, Sanela , Lonka, Kirsti
External publication No
Means FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
Scope Article
Nature Científica
JCR Quartile 1
SJR Quartile 1
JCR Impact 4.232
SJR Impact 0.873
Web https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85114255626&doi=10.3389%2ffpsyg.2021.705336&partnerID=40&md5=6e7d7a7e0949b21e68f91c0d82ab16f2
Publication date 13/08/2021
ISI 000698474600001
Scopus Id 2-s2.0-85114255626
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.705336
Abstract In recent years, the school curricula in many European countries have introduced social and emotional learning (SEL). This calls for the teachers to have SEL competencies. The present study evaluates teachers\' and their students\' readiness for SEL during an intervention in five European countries. The participants were teachers (n = 402) in five European countries; Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, and Spain. The pre- and post-measuring points for both the intervention and the comparison group were at approximately the same time before and after the intervention. Comparison data consisted of 159 teachers in the same countries. The training for the intervention group lasted 16 h for the teachers and a maximum of 16 h for the principles and headmasters. An additional 9 h of further monitoring took place. There were two student groups participating in the study: the age group of 8-11 years (pre puberty) and the age group of 12-15-years (adolescents). Students, whose teachers had participated in the intervention, formed the intervention group (n = 2,552). Those students, whose teachers did not participate in the intervention, formed the comparison group (n = 1,730). The questionnaire data were collected at the beginning and at the end of the school year for both age groups. The results indicated that there was a favorable development in the intervention group in some of the measured skills among students, but the effects were different for the two age groups. This study adds to both theoretical and practical development of continuing teacher training about SEL and its possible role in reducing problem behavior among the students.

Keywords social and emotional learning; teacher training and development; social interaction skills; well-being; assessment; intervention
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