Date: Thursday 27th August

Time: 4.30 - 5.30pm, light refreshments from 4.00pm 

Venue: Level 7 Seminar Room, Queensland Brain Institute (Building #79) The University of Queensland, St Lucia Campus

Speaker: Dr David Osher

Title: Social and emotional learning and the conditions for learning

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About the speaker: David Osher is a preeminent researcher in the area of social and emotional wellbeing. He holds the position of Vice President and Institute Fellow of the Health and Social Development program at the American Institutes for Research (AIR). AIR conducts independent behavioural and social science research and evaluations to improve outcomes in education, health and workforces in America.

This presentation will be of interest to anyone with an interest in the area of social and emotional learning (SEL), the impact of SEL on educational outcomes and in working to improve outcomes in schools.

Abstract

Osher will present research about the importance of and relationship between conditions for academic learning and SEL, the increasing body of evidence on the effects of SEL on learning, social development, and school quality and how they can be measured and improved.  

In doing so he will draw upon both his work and the work of his AIR colleagues in studying these relationships, developing tools to efficiently measure school climate and conditions for learning and interventions that have been demonstrated to improve these measures.

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Please note, there is no parking within the immediate vicinity. There is pay parking along Sir William MacGregor Drive, in the top level of the Conifer Knoll Carpark off Thyne Road (10 minute walk) and Oval 6 Parking Station off Sir William MacGregor Drive (10 minute walk).