How to Build Children's SEL Skills in the ELT Classroom

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, building children’s Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) has taken on urgency. Understanding and managing emotions, setting and achieving goals, feeling and showing empathy, making and maintaining positive relationships, as well as making responsible decisions — this is all SEL. In 2023, a massive meta-analysis of hundreds of studies on six continents, as reported by the Learning Policy Institute (US), found a long-term, medium-to-large, positive impact of SEL in educational settings. So, how do we leverage all of this in the English classroom? Tune in for an engaging discussion on how to reveal and harness the power of SEL to build children’s skills in ELT spaces.

Lucian Alexandrin is an ELT Academic Consultant with National Geographic Learning, a passionate teacher and a seasoned trainer. He holds a B.Sc. in Psychology from Brigham Young University in the U.S. and a Master’s level diploma in teaching English from Cambridge University. A native of Romania, Lucian has more than a decade of experience in operational and academic management of language centres in the United Kingdom, the United States and more recently Mexico. His expertise lies in professional skills and teacher training, as well as in business development in ELT. Lucian’s portfolio includes scores of projects with the British Council, Universidad Iberoamericana, CIDE, PRONI and Santander Universidades. A committed global citizen, he measures his success by the positive impact in the lives of others.