Typing Agent’s SEL Adventure curriculum is designed to help students in grades 4–12 build social, emotional, and digital citizenship skills while strengthening their keyboarding fluency. (Because this curriculum needs students to type all letters, we recommend that it is done only after students have finished World 4's lessons or when we automatically open it up for them to use.)
The curriculum recognizes that success in today’s classrooms requires more than technical skills; students must also develop self-awareness, resilience, and responsible technology use. By embedding SEL lessons directly within Typing Agent, students practice typing while also engaging in lessons that support whole-child development.
Learning Goals
The Typing Agent SEL curriculum focuses on five core competencies adapted from CASEL and aligned to K–12 educational frameworks:
Self-Awareness – recognizing emotions, values, and strengths.
Self-Management – managing stress, setting goals, and developing perseverance.
Social Awareness – showing empathy and respect for others.
Relationship Skills – effective communication, teamwork, and conflict resolution.
Responsible Decision-Making – making ethical, safe, and constructive choices online and offline.
Lesson Components
Each SEL lesson is integrated into typing sessions and includes:
Mini-Story or Scenario – relatable situations (classroom, friendship, online safety).
Typing Practice – reinforces the SEL message through guided text.
Reflection Prompt – short journaling or question for students to apply learning.
Progress Badges – celebrate mastery of both typing and SEL skills.
Note: Students are credited strictly for responses that they have typed completely. Should students begin typing a choice, change their mind, then begin another, they are not given time, WPM, or Accuracy credit for the portion that was not finished. When they begin another selection on the same page, the timer and calculations reset to zero. Also, time credit is given only for the time spent typing, not reading the passage.
Teacher Experience
Teachers receive:
Lesson Guides – outlining SEL focus, discussion questions, and classroom connections.
Assessment Options – light check-ins, self-reflection, and growth tracking rather than heavy testing.
Reporting Tools – dashboards that track SEL lesson completion alongside typing metrics.
Educators can use SEL modules flexibly. They can be a standalone enrichment, weekly “mindful typing” sessions, or integrated into broader character-building and digital citizenship programs.
How To Enable Type Your Own Adventure For A Student, a Group of Students, or the Whole Class
Typically, this curriculum opens up when students have spent enough time in their Keyboarding Foundations curriculum to earn Experience Points (XPs). Grades 3 and higher must earn 2,800 XPs to access this curriculum. By using our XPs, students would have learned all or most of the letters needed to complete this curriculum well. As a teacher or administrator, you may override our default settings and make this adventure available to students immediately or at an earlier/later time than we require.
There are many ways to do this, but here's the most reliable way to make sure your students have access to this curriculum.
First, select your classroom.
Then, click your Students tab. It is here that you can select all, a few, or just one student. Use the check box under the word Roster to activate all students in that classroom, or just choose one or more students by clicking the check box next to their name(s). When you do this, a fly-out menu appears to the right. From here, select Curriculum.
Now, scroll down to SEL Adventure.
Where it says Exp Points, type the number of XPs you want them to earn before this curriculum opens. If you want them to access it somewhat immediately, after 1 or 2 keyboarding lessons, enter 2 or 3 in that field and then press UPDATE. The SEL Adventure icon will now appear for your students when they log into Typing Agent. (If you want to take the curriculum away, simply press REMOVE.)
If you would like to know how well your students performed in this curriculum, you can review your SEL Report. Click on your Progress Report and select the SEL adventure. That report will show how they did in those modules and specific lessons.