The educational interruptions resulting from the pandemic have impacted students both academically and socially. To that end, we truly believe that, when navigating how to address learning loss, educators should focus on both social and academic experiences. Being back in school buildings can present students (as well as teachers) with continued fears and uncertainty. After experiencing remote learning, isolation, and trauma, however, re-establish a social-emotional balance is critical for kids. Though you might want to focus on academics, for many students, it's necessary to first build relationships. Without that strong sense of social-emotional stability, it's that much tougher for them to focus on learning.
Detailed planning and commitment are essential in managing student learning loss as educators aim to fully understand the pandemic's impact. Not only are many students experiencing new academic gaps, others still need lots of social-emotional support. And, it's our belief that returning to social-emotional norms will truly help students academically. To that end, we provide many valuable STEAM tools that can help educators better set students up for recovering from the emotional and academic effects of the pandemic.
How our team can help in learning to address SEL.
- We offer EdTech tools that help classroom educators teach both hard skills in STEM subjects and soft skills that will help students in other areas outside the classroom
- Our offerings can help educators reduce skills gaps, accelerate academic growth, and promote social-emotional development
- Our wide range of products, such as classroom robots like the Root Robot and Ozobot Evo, help students build STEM skills, such as coding, computational thinking, and an understanding of electronics while simultaneously helping them develop key social skills, such as collaboration, persistence, and critical thinking
Different EdTech tools can help students develop hard skills that could increase success in STEM related fields as well as these soft skills. Our wide range of STEAM and MakerEd solutions are perfect for combining STEM and SEL lessons. Uniting STEM and SEL in the classroom helps close skills gaps, accelerate academic growth, and promote student mental health. These are all critical areas for helping students start to overcome potential learning loss following the pandemic. Plus, purposefully integrating technology in the classroom can help prepare teachers for future instructional shifts. We know that learning environments are regularly evolving and that digital learning opportunities are key to maintaining a flow.
What educational leaders need to know.
As you may be aware, we provide valuable STEM and EdTech resources for educators to integrate into the curriculum. We strongly believe in these tools when it comes to students recovering from the educational effects of the pandemic. Our abundance of hands-on solutions align with efforts to address the effects of learning loss through the use of educational technology and supplemental learning programs. Using classroom technology, like educational robots, engineering kits, 3D printers, and more can help students recapture pre-pandemic excitement and rebuild some of the creative confidence they may have lost in the last couple of years. In the process, their social-emotional strength tends to increase as well.
If you have received federal COVID-19 emergency relief funds, including educational funds allocated from the American Rescue Plan Act, the CARES Act, or the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER), we may be able to help. Our store is home to STEAM solutions that those in the education community can purchase using these federal funds. With this funding, educators can potentially make up for lost learning time and distance learning technology costs. Plus, it could also help in continuing to shrink the digital divide and SEL gaps related to remote education.
Our team can help educators identify competency and skills gaps and develop plans to address them. If you’re interested in learning more about allocating relief funds or how STEM tools can help in addressing SEL gaps and learning loss, please feel free to contact us. We'd be happy to set up a free consultation session with someone on our team. You can also find some of the most effective tech tools for enhancing SEL below. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram for more.
