Bibliography

• The importance of the social and emotional competencies of educational staff

  The teacher’s social and emotional competencies are linked to healthy student-teacher relationships which, in turn, create better student social, emotional and academic outcomes, including lower levels of ESL. Such competencies of the teacher can be acquired in pre-service or in-service teacher education.

  Keywords : early school leaving  relational competence  teachers 
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11 February 2015, by Maša Vidmar

• Social and emotional learning as a tool for preventing ESL

  Social and emotional learning plays an important role in preventing ESL through several mechanisms. When implemented in schools, social and emotional learning prevents ESL directly by promoting school connectedness, commitment and positive attitudes to school, teachers and peers and, indirectly, by enhancing educational success.

  Keywords : prevention programs  school bonding  social and emotional competences 
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11 February 2015, by Ana Kozina

• Team members’ and teachers’ understanding of their own unpleasant emotions in the process of teamwork or teaching

  The Circular Emotional Reaction (CER) model helps teachers and other professionals working in schools understand their own unpleasant emotions they experience during teaching and teamwork. The knowledge about emotions helps them regulate their emotional reactions and establish better relationships with other professionals or students so as to prevent ESL.

  Keywords : emotional competencies  Model of «circular emotional reaction»  self-reflection  student-teacher relationship  teachers’ unpleasent emotions  teamwork 
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23 July 2015, by Tina Rutar Leban

• Teachers’ professional development

  The continuing professional development (CDP) of teachers is one of the most important approaches for preventing ESL. Improving educators’ competencies (e.g. communication, discipline management and cooperation competencies) implies improving students’ educational experience and reducing their risk for ESL. CPD should intertwine the different modes (e.g. study groups, self-reflection etc.) taking teachers’ motivation, interests and their stage of professional development into account.

  Keywords : early school leaving  educators  professional development  teachers 
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23 July 2015, by Tina Vršnik Perše

• Developing students’ emotional intelligence (EI) to help prevent ESL

  Children and adolescents with better emotional skills have higher academic achievements and are less prone to ESL. Teachers can help students develop understanding, awareness and regulation of emotions from an early age. The theory and model of circular emotion reaction and the 5-step CER method can be used by teachers in this regard.

  Keywords : early school leaving  emotional competencies  emotional intelligence  students 
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23 July 2015, by Tina Rutar Leban

• Preventing ESL by enhancing resiliency

  Educational resilience is related to staying in school despite high risks (e.g. low social economic status, migrant status) present in one’s life and, as such, can offer a path for preventing ESL. Enhancing educational resilience is a result of fostering protective factor(s) on either the contextual (family, school, community, e.g. parental education trainings, positive school climate improvements…) or individual level (e.g. mind-set trainings).

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23 July 2015, by Ana Kozina