Foundations of Social Emotional Learning

Catalog description

This course is designed to introduce the fundamentals of social and emotional learning to educators. The course lays the theoretical foundations of children and adolescents’ social-emotional learning and wellbeing from cognitive, family and humanistic approaches, and introduces CASEL’s framework of social-emotional learning. The course focuses on promoting self-care of teachers, educators and staff working in school settings and advocates integration of social-emotional learning into daily school practices and subject teaching through community building in schools and classrooms, character development, lesson planning and instruction, and family-school collaborations.