Will Social Learning Integration In B-schools Lead To Effective Learning?

The relationship between teachers and students is the pivotal of learning and hence,the integration of social and emotional learning assumes much significance in modern B schools and an effective SEL is very powerful in molding students as well as the learning itself. Therefore, social and emotional learning skills must be developed on the part of teachers and students and hence, mental health of students at any point of learning time is equally important for effective teaching and learning.

Social and Emotional learning
Teachers must be capable of developing their own social and emotional skills that will one way or another impact on students. In fact, teachers are making lives of students by imparting ever valuable skills and concepts. Generally, students hail from different background and encounter totally different experience in their life and in this situation, bringing them emotionally fit for a particular class is a great challenge for the teachers. However, very few teachers are successful in bringing them together and making them emotionally fit into the particular class. The students, who are sedulous, can make a great headway in academic activities for which emotional learning is an admirable path. Social aspects of teaching are equally important for emotional learning. When there is integration between the social skills of students and emotional aspects of students, it will lead to emotional learning which will pave the way for effective teaching. When there is a vast variation between social aspect of students and teachers, the class room will loose its rigor and ultimately it will result in inefficiency for effective learning. By enhancing social and emotional understanding between the teachers and the students, the students desire to learn more will increase and at the same time ,the students will get confidence in the developing the ability of working harder in the pursuits towards their goals. The best teacher is one who has the ability to identify and manage his own emotions and the emotions of students that will facilitate interpersonal behavior in the class room.

When we bring social and emotional integration in the classroom, every teacher keep himself abreast of the learning disabilities among students in the class. Learning disability depends on ones neurological condition which provides ability to store, process and produce information. By learning disabilities we mean the number of disorders which will stand on the way of acquisition, retention and understanding in the class room. These disorders affect ones thinking and reasoning abilities in different ways and again, learning disabilities impair the process of perceiving, thinking and remembering what is taught in the classroom. Learning disabilities, which in fact may be life long, will lead to difficulty in social interaction and may result in academic underachievement. Lack of motivation and ineffective teaching may further worsen the challenges faced by students with learning disabilities .However, emotional teaching can very well co-exist with such learning disabilities in an appreciable level. The Learning Disabilities Association of America,(LDAA), diagnosed students with specific learning disabilities and found that about 2.4 million students were suffering from such disabilities and are now guided by the Association. Therefore, recognizing the student's learning disability is the first step in the success for effective teaching and learning.

Emotional intelligence
Teachers should understand the emotions of students appropriately and discriminate between different feelings of students and use emotional information in the right way towards the desired direction for effective teaching. The teacher with high emotional intelligence can move people in the right way to the accomplishment of effective teaching. One can identify seven emotions namely happiness, contempt, sadness, surprise, anger, and fear. Daniel Goleman identifies five EI constructs namely self awareness, self regulation, social skill, empathy and motivation. Goleman says " social and emotional skills are intimately linked with cognitive development as an ideal learning environment .Students are focused ,fully attentive, motivated, engaged and enjoy their work." As such,emotional intelligence means the capacity to understand, control and express ones emotions and so that he can very well manage interpersonal relationship judiciously and empathetically. Teachers should not seek emotional blackmail or stir up the uncomfortable feelings of students in order to persuade students to do some tasks. This may be in the form of threatening to make things difficult or end relationship, ignoring , neglecting etc.

Technology and emotional intelligence
Referring to technology in the class room,e- communication have resulted in the decline in the quality of communication in the class room. Social skills involves effective tactics of persuasions ,presenting convincing messages, dissolving disagreement, inspiring students, managing change, building bonds, working towards shared goals and creating group synergy and these, emotional intelligence cannot be successfully accomplished under e-heavy environment. Technology has a negative effect on self awareness and emotional intelligence and causes distractions and leads to low performance in the classroom.

To conclude, if a teacher started class with the radiant smile particularly in the forenoon wishing the students, 'Happy Morning ' with all cheerfulness in his face, it will radiate into the minds of students. Social and Emotional integration teaching will make students to concentrate on teaching and become spell bound and this will further motivate teachers to teach them seriously and joyfully. The best teacher is the one who is capable of bringing emotional feelings to students to listen carefully and consistently whatever may be the title of teaching and aware of social skills which will ulimately result in very effective teaching and learning.