Encouraging emotional and social development for the kids in the classrooms includes modeling and teaching emotional and social skills, offering opportunities for kids to hone and practice these skills, and providing the kids an opportunity to make use of this skillset in different circumstances.

One such prevalent approach includes training educators to deliver evident lessons that impart emotional and social skills, then seeking opportunities for kids that help them reinforce these in their daily lives. Another curricular strategy incorporates SEL training into subject areas like math, social studies, or English language arts.

Educators can naturally enhance the skills in kids through their student-centered and interpersonal interactions throughout their day at the school or any other institution. When adult-student interactions produce positive student-teacher relationships, allow instructors to serve as role models for students' social-emotional skills, and increase student engagement, they encourage SEL.

Student engagement in the learning process is enhanced by teacher strategies that offer emotional support to students as well as chances for student voice, flexibility, and mastery experiences. SEL skills may not be a part of a thorough academic syllabus but are important for kids to possess aptitude. Moreover, it is something that needs to be modeled more than taught, especially for young students. Hence, educators who model social and emotional characteristics for their students have a great chance of imparting SEL skills efficiently.

Students can connect with encouraging adults and classmates through after-school programs as well. They offer young people a fantastic setting for learning and using new abilities. According to research, after-school programs that emphasize social and emotional growth can considerably raise students' self-perceptions, school connectedness, good social behaviors, academic performance, and achievement test scores while lowering problem behaviors.