MED668 Student and Faculty Development Through Social Emotional Learning: Top 20 Training© (3 cr.)

This training series and graduate coursework explores creating (and maintaining) a healthy culture and climate that fosters social-emotional learning for students and colleagues in schools and classrooms. Learners explore how to create an engaging environment for students that embraces assessment,  instruction, and parent involvement. Learners discern how teachers might be most effective in the twenty-first century in order to not get in the way of student learning. Learners dig deeper into all five of the CASEL competencies of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) and learn how to practically integrate SEL and Top 20 Training© concepts into the classroom.

Upon completion of this course, the learner is expected to be able to do the following:

1. Examine existing classroom instructional practices related to the workshop content to identify strengths and gaps for professional growth.
2. Share and/or analyze diverse perspectives on the workshop content in order to build knowledge on the topic. 
3. Examine the ideas and perspectives of the workshop content and research in relation to a classroom learning environment.
4. Apply the workshop’s theoretical and pedagogical approaches to the teaching and learning practice.
5. Utilize professional inquiry skills (a tool for sustained job-embedded professional development).
6. Use reflection to improve practice.