Social and Emotional Learning: Strategies for Class and Beyond
Course Summary
In a world with many pressing issues, students experience high levels of anxiety, relationship challenges, and disengagement with education. Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) comes to help with building positive behaviors and resilience. SEL offers effective and clear strategies to navigate challenges, improve the class atmosphere, and build a safe environment. SEL strategies can be applied face-to-face or remotely, where SEL takes even more relevance when students tend to disconnect more.
By exploring the worldwide recognized framework of the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) you will gain awareness of the scope and impact of SEL and will learn the steps to implement it.
You will be immersed in the best practices of how to deepen your self-awareness, empathy and will help you create a safe environment and to provide opportunities for connection in class. At the end of the course, you will be able to apply a range of techniques for stress management, community building, positive communication, and resilience.
You will work on creating your own SEL plan for your classes and at your school.
COURSE INFO
LOCATION: ADELAIDE, SA
DATES:
17th-20th July 2023,
4 DAYS
TIME: 09:30 AM-1:30 PM
FORMAT: HYBRID. 16 HOURS FACE-TO-FACE AND 4 HOURS VIRTUALLY.
AUDIENCE: PRIMARY, SECONDARY AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TEACHERS, STUDENTS OF EDUCATION AND SCHOOL LEADERSHIP.
PD TOTAL HOURS: 20
PRICE: $800
Learning Outcomes
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Understand and implement aspects of the CASEL integrated framework
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Identify strategies to create a safe environment in class
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Apply strategies to improve teacher-student and student-student communication
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Develop students' identities and sense of belonging
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Increase social awareness in yourself and your students to cultivate healthy relationships
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Build and sustain a positive community in your class and school
Schedule
Day 1: On the Importance of SEL
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1. Face-to-face:
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-Presentations; Course Introductions
-Team building activities
-Main issues in education, teachers share their concrete experiences
-Identifying the 5 SEL competencies: Self-awareness, Self-management, Social awareness, Relationship skills and Responsible decision-making.
-SEL impact.
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2. Virtual:
-Team or individual project for approx. 1 hour to be done on your own time in the afternoon.
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Day 2: Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment
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1. Face-to-face
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-3 essential elements: Positive relationships, community building and student-centred discipline (restorative justice)
-Activities for labelling feelings, coping with stress, setting and achieving goals, developing empathy, communicating effectively, resolving conflict, being assertive, and making responsible decisions
-Case Studies
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2. Virtual:
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-Team or individual project for approx. 1 hour to be done on your own time in the afternoon.
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Day 3: SEL Activities
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1. Face-to-face
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- Welcoming/Inclusion Activities
- Engaging Strategies, Brain Breaks, and Transitions
- Optimistic Closures
-Frame mistakes and struggle as an important part of learning
-Discussion and collaborative learning strategies
-Case studies
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2. Virtual:
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-Team or individual project for approx. 1 hour to be done on your own time in the afternoon.
Day 4: Finding Support and Sustainability
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1. Face-to-face:
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-Parents, families, and communities: Social and emotional learning in context
-Teacher Personal Project presentations and peer feedback
-Final Reflection.
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2. Virtual:
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-Course feedback (15 mins approx)
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Your Trainer
Dr. Carolina Castro
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Carolina is an experienced educator with 21 years of teaching career in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary education in Europe, USA and Australia. She is a PBL practitioner and researcher, as she has implemented projects in class for more than 8 years and her PhD thesis was on improving students' motivation using PBLL combined with digital technologies.
For the last 5 years, she has trained teachers from Europe, Asia and Australia, and she has collaborated with educational foundations and whole schools around the world. Carolina has a B.A. in English Language and Literature, an M.A. in Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language, and a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and Education. Some of her topics of expertise are Project-Based Learning, Project-Based Language Learning, Social and Emotional Learning, Digital tools for education, CLIL, Life skills, Pedagogy and E-Pedagogy among others.
She has presented in academic conferences, professional events for teachers and doctoral seminars around the world, online and face to face. When Carolina's PhD thesis was published, it was one of the few examples in the world of a foreign languages' practitioner using PBLL together with digital technologies sharing her experience.