Transformative Social and Emotional Learning
This reflective course aims to guide you through social and emotional learning when it is rooted in equity, identity, belonging, and community justice. By understanding the elements of transformative social and emotional learning (TSEL), teachers can identify spaces throughout the day and within their curriculum and classroom practices, where students can feel validated and celebrated for who they are as they become co-collaborators of the learning space.
Description
School districts nationwide have been implementing various forms of social-emotional learning into the school day, hoping that by explicitly teaching awareness around self and others, students will have a stronger connection to school and have higher levels of success in their relationships, and academic learning. While some schools are implementing social-emotional learning curriculum during advisory time or as a specific class in the school day, other school sites have shifted to teaching and modeling it within school culture as a whole.
The purpose of this course is to take you even deeper beyond teaching and modeling SEL competencies and move you to a place of reflective practice focusing on examining educational conditions, otherwise known as transformative SEL.
Together we will look at the political landscape of SEL in the country, which is changing rapidly. This course is not meant to polarize us based on our political stance, but rather to help us collectively understand how the landscape impacts us and our students.
This course is designed to dig deeper into the body and understand how discomfort can show up when implementing transformative social-emotional learning, and the responsibility we have to holistically implement transformative practices into educational systems.
Discounts
Through the generosity of the PrairieCare Fund in Memory of Claudia Murray, we are providing the course at a discounted rate of $49. The normal price for the course is $99. Augsburg is offering a discount to the first 100 people who take the course.
We also offer a Certificate in Supporting Student Mental Health for K-12 Teachers that includes three courses. Thanks to the generosity of the PrairieCare Fund in Memory of Claudia Murray, we are providing the certificate at a rate of $129 (normal price of $249).
Accessibility
If you need any disability-related accommodations to participate in this course fully, please contact the CACE staff at cace@augsburg.edu or 507-923-4210. It is most helpful if requests are made at least two weeks in advance of the start of the course.
What you'll Learn
- Identify your relationship to social and emotional learning.
- Recognize how TSEL is transformative and how to employ it in the classroom.
- Examine the cultural landscape of transformative social and emotional learning.
- Explore the role of transformative justice in implementing TSEL.
- Practice reflecting on your own social and emotional competencies and strategies for creating a more transformative classroom.
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Ideal For
Practicing and preservice K-12 teachers in all subject areas.
Key Features
- On-demand
- Self-paced online
- Asynchronous
- Mobile-friendly
- Interactive
- Reflective
- Thought-provoking
- CEU awarding
Cancellation Policy
You may request a refund up to 7 days from the purchase date. The registration fee, minus a $35 processing fee, will only be refunded if less than 10% of the course has been completed.
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