American Institute of Monterrey
  Wellness

The Social-Emotional Development Curriculum is a cumulative, integrated curriculum spread over all years at the AIM. It is a blended curriculum using the Character Counts program from the USA at all ages, the SEAL program from the UK for Preschool to Grade 5, and an Advisory Program from Canada for Grades 6 to 9.
 

SEAL Curriculum Overview

The SEAL Program (Preschool to 5) objective is to reinforce the ability to understand, manage, and express the social and emotional aspects of one's life in ways that enable the successful management of life task. It is a spiral curriculum that revises each of five recurring topics and their associated skills in developmentally appropriate ways. These five aspects fall into two categories:
Personal:

- Self-awareness
- Managing feelings or Self-Regulation
Motivation:
- Interpersonal
- Empathy
- Social skills
 

Students are taught to use thinking skills and feelings together to guide their behavior. Some of the skills that are explicitly targeted through SEAL are:

- To be effective and successful learners
- Make and sustain friendships
- Deal with and resolve conflict effectively and fairly
- Solve problems with others or by themselves
- Manage strong feelings such as frustration, anger and anxiety
- Recover from setbacks and persist in the face of difficulties
- Work and play cooperatively
- Understand and value the differences between people, respecting the right of others to have beliefs and values different from their own.

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