Roundies SEL Curriculum

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CertifiedEducation quality
11/2019
Roundies SEL Curriculum

Roundies SEL Curriculum

Rounders Entertainment
Early education
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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
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 Finnish Educational Quality Certificate

Our Quality Evaluation Method is an academically sound approach to evaluating a product’s pedagogical design from the viewpoint of educational psychology.

The method has been developed with university researchers and all evaluators are carefully selected Finnish teachers with a master's degree in education.

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