Social-Emotional Competence Is Imperative For Elementary School Students

Social- Emotional Competence (SEC) is one of the most important investigated area of everybody’s life, especially in young children in present scenario. To develop children social-emotional competence, a positive and affectionate relationship between adults and children is very essential. Besides this, a positive relationship between teachers and young students helps those students to have better school achievement and behavioral skills. Teachers have the responsibility to enhance children’s development in many aspects, including social, emotional, cognitive, academic, and behavioral skills. Various review studies show that SEC has direct influence on children’s learning outcomes and on their ability to engage in good relationship. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the SEC on teacher- child relationship along with children’s academic achievement, school readiness and behavioral success. With the help of several strategies of SEL teachers are able to build strong and healthy relationships with children. These strategies foster children’s academic and behavioral success. Additionally, social and emotional learning is also defined in relation to school successes to show that competence in these areas increases students’ reading, writing, critical thinking, and vocabulary skills.