Social and emotional learning of students with learning difficulties

The social and emotional needs of students seem to less attended. Due to a greater number of students facing difficulties in learning the school environment gets affected. In order to improve the well-being of such frustrated students’ activities enhancing social and emotional skills were administered for a month on 7th and 8th std students (N=100). The resource developed by Youth Research Centre (2014); University of Melbourne was used for the purpose. The learning material comprised of activities enhancing emotional literacy, personal strengths, positive coping, problem solving, stress management and help seeking. A follow-up was taken after two months period which indicated that introducing programs at an early stage may help these students to face positively the frustrations posed by learning difficulties. However, to derive long-term results implementing standardized program and monitoring progress is essential.