Social Emotional Learning at the Elementary Level
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Overview and Purpose
My mini-course, Social Emotional Learning at the Elementary Level, hit close to home for me. Being in the classroom everyday, I have first-hand witnessed that children are struggling to regulate and understand their emotions. Students are struggling to communicate how they are feeling and what they need that it is showing to negatively affect their educational experience. My mini-course will highlight many different teaching strategies for educators or people heavily involved in the educational field, to add to their teaching toolbox. My goal for this mini-course would be that after completion, participants would walk away feeling confident in assisting students with their SEL skills and finding positive and effective outlets.
Performance Based Objectives
Course Outline
Unit 1: Self-Awareness: Unit One: Self-Awareness
After this unit participants should be able to:
- Define the definition of self-awareness.
- Understand the importance of self-awareness within the school and home atmospheres.
Unit 2: Self-Management: Unit Two: Self-Management
After this unit participants should be able to:
- Identify ways to properly create self-management plans for students.
- Explain why setting achievable goals are essential to student's self-management skills.
Unit 3: Social Awareness: Unit Three: Social Awareness
After this unit participants should be able to:
- Understand the benefits of social awareness for students and the classroom.
- Identify different ways to improve the environment of the classroom with social awareness.
Unit 4: Decision-Making: Unit Four: Decision-Making
After this unit participants should be able to:
- Define the four essential factors for decision making: safety, risk, benefits, and consequences.
- Identify why decision-making is important in the classroom.
Unit 5: Relationship Skills: Unit Five: Relationship Skills
After this unit participants should be able to:
- List all the positive qualities to building relationships within the classroom.
- Gain new strategies for teaching building relationships.