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SEL - Self-Awareness

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has identified five competencies that are crucial to effective Social and Emotional Learning for children and adults. Self-Awareness is one of those competencies and this course will guide educators through the examination of your personal self.

Elevating your practice as an educator is more than just a depth of understanding of your curriculum area, or your job function(s). Connecting with your students, their families, and colleagues is a critical component of elevating your effectiveness when working with others.

Your awareness of self and others, experiences and growth are critical components to understanding and assisting your students and the adults connected to their lives. You should continue to acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to be competent and successful in relationships with others, especially with those who differ from you, holding values and beliefs different from yours, and whose experiences differ from yours.

The deep understanding of your story and of your development leads to an expansion of your understanding about yourself and others. Your story may very well lead you to action. What will this action be? Only you can determine that!

Course Objectives

In this course, you will learn how to

• Identify and assess your emotions, thoughts, behaviors, and values, as well as your ability to access your goals, strengths and challenges. Then you will learn how to empower yourself with confidence, optimism, and sources of motivation.
• Look deeply at yourself and build on an awareness of your own personal identity (values, beliefs, cultural norms, implicit biases, etc.) and how that identity can reflect a mindset that suspend judgment and is culturally responsive.
• Reflect on your current social and emotional skills, so you are aware of areas where you may want to improve.  This requires you to get away from distractions and take time to reflect deeply and honestly on your strengths and weaknesses.

Sample Course Syllabus

SEL - Relationship Skills

Is this the course for me?

Ask yourself the following questions:

• Do I want to better understand how to manage my own feelings and thoughts when it comes to relationships?
• Can I improve upon how I communicate with others?
• Is my well-being important to myself and others?

If you answered “yes” to just one of these questions, then this course is for you!

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) defined social emotional learning (SEL) more than two decades ago. Today, CASEL supports states, districts, and schools and convenes leading thinkers to ensure SEL is a priority in schools nationwide. CASEL’s mission is to help make evidence-based SEL an integral part of preK-12 education. Their work is critical at a time when educators, parents, students, and employers increasingly recognize the value of SEL. SEL is the process through which both children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships, and make responsible decisions. Are you in? In this course, you will learn to ask essential questions of yourself, raise awareness as to the impact of your social and ethical norms on your practice as an educator, recognize your personal network of supports and expand your skills in empathizing with those who have a different perspective from yours.

Course Outcomes

In this course, you will learn to:

• Build and improve upon your relationship skills with colleagues, students, and community members
• Identify your own skills and strengths as they apply to SEL competencies
• Use interpersonal and communication skills in various educational settings and understand their importance in building, restoring, and preserving relationships
• Focus on fine tuning your own relationship building skills as needed

Sample Course Syllabus

SEL - Social Awareness

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has identified five competencies that are crucial to effective Social and Emotional Learning for children and adults. Social-Awareness is one of those competencies and this course will guide educators through the examination of your personal self.

Elevating your practice as an educator is more than just a depth of understanding of your curriculum area, or your job function(s). Connecting with your students, their families, and colleagues is a critical component of elevating your effectiveness when working with others.

Your awareness of self and others, experiences and growth are critical components to understanding and assisting your students and the adults connected to their lives. You should continue to acquire and effectively apply the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to be competent and successful in relationships with others, especially with those who differ from you, holding values and beliefs different from yours, and whose experiences differ from yours.

As you work through each week of this course, it is recommended that you keep an ongoing journal of your reflections about videos and readings and responses to questions, ways to implement the strategies you learn about in your personal and professional lives, and insights on your needs, as well as those of students, and adults around you.

Course Outcomes

In this course, you will learn to:

• Ask essential questions of yourself, raise awareness on the impact of your social and ethical norms on your practice as an educator, recognize your personal network of supports, and expand your skills in empathizing with those who have a different perspective from yours.
• Allow yourself to lean into uncomfortable spaces within yourself to challenge your perspectives of diversity, equity, justice, and inclusion.
• Explore and strengthen your fundamental beliefs about relationships and connections to move towards living your best life.

Sample Course Syllabus

SEL - Self-Management

The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) recognizes five core competencies that promote intrapersonal, interpersonal, and cognitive competence. In this course, you will focus on the self-management competency.

Self-management is one of the five social emotional learning (SEL) competencies that includes regulating one’s emotions, stress management, self-control, motivation, and setting and achieving goals (CASEL. 2020).

Socially and emotionally competent educators develop supportive relationships, identify, and manage their own emotions with others to develop and enhance their social and emotional skills (adapted from Yoder, Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2014).

Skills related to self-management may include (adapted from Yoder, Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, 2014):

• Managing stress
• Regulating emotions
• Overcoming obstacles
• Creating plans and working towards goals
• Creating strategies for long- and short-term goals
• Monitoring progress towards long- and short-term goals
• Accepting constructive feedback
• Exhibiting positive behaviors such as motivation, hope, and optimism
• Seeking help when needed
• Advocating for self
• Exhibiting perseverance and determination

Course Outcomes

• Learn strategies to cope with stress
• Create a self-management plan

Sample Course Syllabus

SEL - Responsible Decision-Making

In the ever changing education landscape, educators and students are constantly required to make decisions that impact them and others. In order to analyze situations and solve problems, individuals must make constructive choices about their personal behavior and their social interactions.

Before educators can effectively guide students through the process of responsible decision making, they must self-reflect and identify ways to improve their own decision- making skills. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) has identified five competencies that are crucial to effective social and emotional learning (SEL) for children and adults. Responsible decision making is one of those competencies.

During this course, participants will take a journey of self-reflection and growth while exploring the Responsible Decision-Making competency.

Course Outcomes

• Focus on the responsible decision-making competency.
• Learn how the brain makes decisions, and what interferes with good decisions.
• Learn strategies for analyzing situations, identifying problems, and exploring solutions with consideration for your well-being and others.

Sample Course Syllabus