Promoting Social & Emotional Learning with Music
The
SEL is further facilitated in form as an experiential workshop where the worthy
participants i.e. our music teachers imbibe the concepts that need a deeper
perpetuation in the minds of our today’s students.
They
are involved in various activities with prime objectives and to develop the
skills as mentioned below:
a)
Self-Awareness
This
includes accurately assessing one's strengths and limitations, having positive
mindsets and a well-grounded sense of self-efficacy and optimism.
b)
Self-Management
This
includes the ability to delay gratification, manage stress, control impulses
and persevere through challenges in order to achieve personal and educational
goals.
c)
Social Awareness
Social
awareness involves the ability to understand, empathize and feel compassionate
for those with different backgrounds or cultures. It also involves
understanding social norms for behaviour and recognizing family, school,
community resources and supports.
d)
Relationship Skills
Relationship
skills help students establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships.
These skills involve communicating clearly, listening actively, cooperating,
resisting inappropriate social pressure, negotiating conflict constructively
and seeking help when it is needed.
e) Responsible Decision Making
Responsible decision making involves learning how to make constructive choices about personal behaviour and social interactions across diverse settings.
f) Self-confidence and Leadership Skills
Taking
the lead in a team not only requires being the best but also to be confident,
vigilant and a team player. It becomes all the more challenging when you are
responsible for the performance of the team giving equal opportunities to each
member and ensure participation
g) Empathy Development
Making music
in a group also challenges students to watch the people around them for subtle
cues to timing, volume and expressiveness—the same cues that we use for reading
expressions and moods on people’s faces.
To inculcate most of these
skills mentioned above we facilitate and execute various activities involving
the participation of all. They are segregated in groups and made to sing
songs by skipping lyrics to promote self control, self regulations and group coordination.
The teachers
are made to create and self compose songs to manage and overcome problem behavior
of students and promote brainstorming, empathy, relationship building,
creativity and expression.
These are the most prominent and integral skill
techniques which can surely be inculcated in the classrooms. Pertaining to music
which acts as the trigger for optimal
performance.
