For Educators: Social Emotional Learning and Teaching

For Educators: Social Emotional Learning and Teaching

In this course we will:

1. Lay out the problem - define and understand the patterns and mechanisms related to childhood and adolescent mental illness

2. Talk about stress - identify the relationship between stress, anxiety, and depressions and develop easy and practical interventions to de-escalate and prevent stress buildup

3. Learn about trauma - Learn key concepts of Trauma Informed Care and create strategies to support traumatized students

4. Engage motivation -  learn about the the relationship between motivation, performance, and mental health and develop ways to teach students how to have healthy relationship with their academic performance

5. Learn how to respond to emotional needs - Utilize approaches developed by child development psychology and neuroscience to improve our responses to students in distress

6. Focus on wellbeing - Create intentional pedagogical tools to develop positive self-esteem, self-awareness, mastery and other skills crucial for mental health

7. Be mindful - Identify how to utilize “staying in the now” to improve academic outcomes, relationships with students, and overall wellbeing

At the end of the course you will have enough information to build your own curriculum unit (guidelines included) using the content from the course and lesson plans (templates included). The curriculum unit will be a streamlined unit that will help you (and other educators if you wish to share!) address a specific mental health/illness need in the classroom.

Learn more about childhood and adolescent mental health to in order to manage mental illness and increase mental health

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What you will learn

• Tips and tools for managing the social emotional needs of children of all ages in the classroom
• How to develop a curriculum unit and lesson plans that integrate mental health skills like self-esteem, confidence, & perseverance into daily lessons
• Important information stress, trauma informed teaching, lack of motivation, anxiety and other stressors commonly present in classrooms

Rating: 4.75

Level: Beginner Level

Duration: 5 hours

Instructor: Zinobia Bennefield Ph.D