I believe social and emotional learning (SEL) have significant impacts on both the learning and teaching quality. Besides the positive results on student development mentioned in the lecture, SEL promotes teachers' well-being and view of their profession, then eventually enriches the student-teacher relationship. Especially, using SEL as a lens can help teachers understand learners thoroughly, which can be a guideline for learning and teaching quality improvement 

When I was a community facilitator in the rural areas of Vietnam, it was always interesting to observe participants behave and interact with me or their community people. Specifically, there are two big settings established for the interactions to happen, which are during the 'formal' training and 'informal' conversations.

First, I delivered training on raising awareness of gender equality. Although my participants were mainly women from ethnic minorities, I tried to engage their partners, family or community members to join discussions. Observing and assessing during the training, I realized there was a considerable social context happening that affects women's participation. Specifically, women in such areas aren't expected to express their opinions, especially ones that go against the social norms of the community. Plus, the presence of other community members hindered their willingness to behave authentically. So social stereotypes clearly put pressure on women in the way they behave. Indeed, they self-regulate not to participate in the training as dynamically as they should due to the fear of judgement. This fact considerably affects their learning of topics about values like gender equality which requires participants to experience a sense of injustice to eventually lead to a sense of positive change. 

There is also another interesting point that helped me realize such socio-behavioral factor. After the training, I normally approach the participants to have mutual (or more private and casual) conversations to further understand them. They were much more expressive when talking to me while others (people in their community) do not listen. I figured somehow the unfamiliarity between me and them createed a certain level of comfort as I don't hold any stake in their life. There wouldn't be as much pressure or big fear of judgement, besides me appearing to be curious and really caring about what they have to say. 

Long story short, I interpret this sort of behavior as self-regulation which will vary depending on different situations and numerous other factors.