Promote social-emotional development
We prioritise social-emotional skills What do we mean by social-emotional skills? DETERMINATION MANAGING EMOTIONS SELF-CONFIDENCE HARMONIOUS SOCIAL BEHAVIORS PREVENTING BULLYING Why is this important? Socio-emotional skills are part of the foundation of any learning process. In addition to knowing how to read and count, every student needs to know how to manage their emotions in different contexts, work and collaborate effectively within a team, be confident that they can finalize a task, be autonomous and have the ability to empathize. How do we develop these skills in students? Regardless of the subject they teach, Teach for Romania fellows invest in their students’ harmonious growth. Learning is hard to achieve if students don’t feel safe, heard, important, therefore the act of teaching begins with the well-being and safety of each student. Student survey Every year, we ask for student feedback to see how they feel at school, how they feel about their relationship with their teacher and the classes they are attending. Teachers learn from their students’ responses and adapt the way they work in the classroom. Thus, we found out that: 92% of primary school students say that they like going to school and that lessons are interesting. 92% of