Keeping students’ attention
The trouble with lecturing to students is in keeping their attention.
Yes, some subject matter needs to be taught by lecturing, and yes, many teachers have learned to overcome the boring droning that tends to happen during lectures and make things interesting enough to keep the attention of the children. But to lecture on self-awareness is probably not going to do a lot of good.
Teachers need to allow the children to get involved in their learning of social and emotional skills. With Self-Science the children get involved by actually partaking in self assessment assignments and experiments. With self assessment, the teacher is able to learn how the child feels about his or her own self-worth and can gain insight into the child’s emotional state. With this knowledge, the teacher can individually work with the child to help them to realize positive aspects of themselves as well as work on things that they feel are negative.