6 Strategies for Using AI for Social-Emotional Learning

Helping students develop inter- and intra-personal skills is an essential part of learning and plays a significant role in students’ overall well-being and academic success. GenAI tools can help teachers create highly personalized social-emotional learning (SEL) experiences. Here are our 6 favorites:

As part of our webinar this week on AI + SEL & The Mental Health Crisis, we created a new section of our prompt library dedicated to SEL in collaboration with the amazing Margot Toppen.

Here are our six favorite strategies for designing SEL lessons and activities using GenAI.

(Click on any to view the full prompt.)

Reflective Journaling

Prompt: Create a list of journal reflection prompts that help students reflect on their emotions, strengths, and goals. 

Mindfulness Strategies

Prompt:  Design mindfulness strategies to help my students cope with stress, test-anxiety, and/or feelings of isolation.

Mindful Classroom Meetings

Prompt:  Create a class meeting agenda that fosters inclusion, empathy, perspective-taking, respect for others, and/or a positive community. 

Cooperative Learning to Promote Positive Relationships

Prompt:  Design a cooperative learning project for an academic subject that includes strategies to help students develop positive relationships with their peers. 

Conflict Resolution Role-Play

Prompt: Generate culturally responsive role-playing scenarios to help students practice navigating difficult situations, solve problems, and/or resolve conflicts.

Modeling SEL Competencies

Prompt:  Brainstorm different strategies that I can use to model specific SEL skills and competencies for my students.

You can see all of our new SEL prompts plus examples and further ideas for exploring here.

Or check out the recording to the full webinar with Margot, Kristie Opaleski, and Anabel Ibarra here.

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