The Teacher's Social and Emotional Learning

Instructor: Dan Liston , Randy Testa

Advanced Level • 1 week at 10 hours a week • Flexible Schedule

What You'll Learn

  • Explore the place of sadness and related emotions in teaching
  • Explore the role of joy and passion related in teaching and how they can concretize a teacher’s set of beliefs about education and teaching
  • Reflect on the definitions and roles of grit, grace, and personal wholeness in the profession of teaching

Skills You'll Gain

Self-Awareness
Resilience
Persistence
Empathy
Emotional Intelligence
Relationship Building
Growth Mindedness
Teaching

Shareable Certificate

Earn a shareable certificate to add to your LinkedIn profile

Outcomes

  • Learn new concepts from industry experts
  • Gain a foundational understanding of a subject or tool
  • Develop job-relevant skills with hands-on projects
  • Earn a shareable career certificate

There are 5 modules in this course

Here we introduce what SEL is and why it is important for all teachers. We elaborate the need for the teacher to enhance her/his knowledge of self, especially his/her own social and emotional terrain. A guiding premise is that deeper teacher self-understanding facilitates and enhances deeper student relations and greater chances for the transformative possibilities for student and teacher. A related premise is that by examining our deeply held cherished beliefs and emotional responses to situations and texts, we create opportunities for further insights into why and the ways we teach.

Here we further elaborate the need for the teacher to enhance her/his knowledge of self, especially his/her emotional responses as well as deeply held beliefs.

The value of reflection on and examination of sadness, despair, and related emotions in teaching is seen as one example of an enhanced “granularity” offered to teachers through reflection on emotions.

The value of reflection on and examination of joy and passion, as well as other related emotions in teaching is seen as another example of an enhanced “granularity” that can be gained by teachers through a reflection on emotions.

By contrasting “grit” and “wholeness” in teaching and learning we explore further the value we as individuals place on these two orienting dispositions.