Roundies SEL Curriculum

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CertifiedEducation quality

11/2019

Rounders Entertainment

Early education

Roundies is a social-emotional learning program for early education. It consists of teacher’s materials, books, flash cards and other print materials.

Roundies SEL Curriculum introduces Emotional and Life Skills to preschool in fun and engaging way. It promotes children’s social and emotional competence towards well-being and thriving. The curriculum utilizes Roundies characters and stories in learning to name emotions and emotion management and improving skills such as creativity, flexibility, self-control, and discipline. Roundies offers extensive teacher's support material for conducting the curriculum.
Roundies SEL Curriculum will be available in English spring 2020.

Age groups

Preschool

Languages

Finnish

Platform

Browser-based

Non-digital product

Registration

Required

Offline play

Playable offline

Pictures

Roundies curriculum offers both digital and print material to be used hand-in-hand.

The children will learn to name their emotions.

The curriculum offers highly visual print material to be used in education.

Roundies stories keep the learners engaged.

The curriculum offers great support material for the teacher.

Pedagogy

Educational Quality

Learning Goals

The pedagogical analysis covers how the product supports learning of the identified skills. The student’s role is assessed by four contrary pair parameters, which are selected to cover the most essential aspects on the use of the product.

Passive

Active

Children are helped with emotional expression and self-regulation through the ready-made learning material and stories. The materials include clear instructions for children to plan, implement and evaluate activities with and guided by the teachers The product helps to enrich children's vocabulary and understanding of the meanings of emotional words.

Rehearse

Construct

Children practice interaction and expression in different situations and receive support from print materials that can be downloaded from the product's website. The worksheets included in the product also make it easy for the child to understand what he or she has learned. Roundies materials as a daily part of learning give children the chance to practice mental health and well-being skills. The program offers enough freedom for the educator to apply the tasks to their own group. Teachers' mater

Linear

Non-linear/Creative

Roundies provides a clear modular structure, but the learning path of each child is still quite individual, as the tasks provide an opportunity for creative and personalized work.

Individual

Collaborative

The Roundies program is based on working together and going through things in a group. There are tasks in which the child can use his / her own creativity and act independently, but the emphasis is on working together. The entire program also offers excellent tools for community building and the development of constructive collaboration in the early education group!

The following are the high educational quality aspects in this product.

Visual, storybased material supports expression of emotions, self-regulation and rehearses empathy, looking at thigs from different persepectives and solving conflicts.

Clear and well-structured program, which offers great materials for educators, parents and children.

Beautifully executed and high quality books and print materials

The supported learning goals are identified by matching the product with several relevant curricula descriptions on this subject area. The soft skills are definitions of learning goals most relevant for the 21st century. They are formed by taking a reference from different definitions of 21st century skills and Finnish curriculum.

Subject based learning goals

Lasten valmiuksia havainnoida, jäsentää ja ymmärtää ympäristöään kehitetään.

Demonstrates knowledge of his/her own uniqueness (talent, interests, preferences, gender, culture, etc.).

Exhibits self confidence by attempting new tasks independent of prompting or reinforcement.

Compares and/or contrasts self to others (e.g., physical characteristics, preferences, feelings, abilities).

Identifies the range of feelings he/she experiences, and that his/her feelings may change over time, as the environment changes, and in response to the behavior of others.

Displays accomplishment, contentment, and acknowledgement when completing a task or solving a problem by himself/herself (e.g., wants to show a peer or adult).

Expresses feelings, needs, opinions and desires in a way that is appropriate to the situation.

Appropriately names types of emotions (e.g., frustrated, happy, excited, sad) and associates them with different facial expressions, words and behaviors.

Demonstrates an ability to independently modify his/her behavior in different situations.

Soft skills learning goals

Practicing strategic thinking

Practicing communication through different channels

Practicing to use foreign language as a communication tool

Learning to understand the meaning of rules, contracts and trust

Practicing to express own thoughts and feelings

Practicing to give, get and reflect feedback

Enabling the growth of positive self-image

Practicing versatile ways of working

Practicing to evaluate one's own learning

Creating requirements for creative thinking

Practicing creative thinking

Practicing to improvise

Encouraging students to be innovative and express new ideas

Practicing to use imagination and to be innovative

Developing problem solving skills

Learning to find solutions in social conflicts

Learning to recognise and evaluate arguments and their reasonings

Practicing to notice causal connections

Practicing to create questions and make justifiable arguments based on observations

Practicing to look things from different perspectives

Learning to face failures and disappointments

Practicing to recognize and express feelings

Encouraging the growth of positive self-image

Practicing to take care of one's own wellbeing and health

Practicing to take care of one's own and other people’s safety

Practicing to take care of own and other people’s safety

Encouraging to build new information and visions

Learning to combine information to find new innovations

Learning to know and respect human rights

Learning to face respectfully people and follow the good manners

Learning to understand people, surroundings and phenomenons around us

Practicing to work with others

Practicing to argument clearly own opinions and reasonings

Learning to listen other people’s opinions

Learning decision-making, influencing and accountability

Practicing persistent working

Roundies SEL Curriculum