Developing Social and Emotional Learning Through Play

Episode 59 - Social and Emotional Learning Through Play

Heather Welch is chating about Play or as we like to say play based learning or learning through play at edx education.

Over the past 2 years we have chatted on the podcast with so many experts on this topic, created amazing educational resources, experiences and toys at edx education .

Last podcast we looked at the value of play, let’s look at the social and emotional learning why is it important, how is it developed and why we integrate this through play in the early years…

The last few years have brought forward many issues that children face from managing their emotions, being able to self regulate have empathy for others and so much more. In education we talk a lot about children social and emotional development especially in the early years.

Highlights from this episode:

(01:19) The importance of SEL in early development

(03:08) The five key areas for competence

(06:28) Play as a learning tool

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