Enhancing Social-Emotional Experiences to Improve Student Outcomes

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CEU Course Description

Part 1: An overwhelming amount of information, studies, and recent data points to the fact that a child’s emotional and social well-being is enormously important not just for their overall health and happiness: It’s also important for their academic performance. Many studies and meta-analyses over the past several years have highlighted the importance of social-emotional learning, and particularly the necessity of a whole-community approach. In this course, we’ll discuss the current recommendations from the CDC and the WHO regarding whole-school health and social-emotional learning. We’ll review meta-analyses from researchers seeking to find all of the possible correlations between whole-school social-emotional wellness and student health outcomes. Finally, we’ll provide an overview of actions that teachers and school administrations can take to invest in their community’s social and emotional wellbeing. 

Part 2: This course is designed to provide teachers with an understanding of the psychological and social issues that children face today, including mental health and behavioral disorders, bullying, social media, and trauma. When ignored, psychosocial issues in young people can have a detrimental effect on their ability to learn, grow, and develop properly.  As teachers, it is important to know the symptoms, causes, and strategies for addressing these issues in the classroom.  In this course, participants will learn about (1) the most common psychosocial issues faced by youth today; (2) how trauma impacts development and can lead to certain behavioral responses; (3) how psychosocial issues impact learning and behavior; and (4) strategies that that teachers can use to support children facing psychosocial issues. 

Part 3: The term “youth violence” covers a wide range of behaviors, including bullying, fighting, teen dating violence, and gang related violence.  Violence and bullying can cause emotional and physical harm to young people, and can have long-term negative impacts on their physical and emotional health.  Because young people spend so much of their lives at school, educators are in the unique position to prevent youth violence by providing youth with guidance, resources, and other protective factors. In this course, participants will learn about (1) the definition, types and prevalence of youth violence, (2) risk factors and protective factors in youth violence, (3) types of bullying and its impact on youth, and (4) what schools can do to prevent and address bullying and violence.  

Part 4: Neuroeducation is an interdisciplinary field that brings together neuroscience, psychology, and education, to explore how children learn and how to apply brain-based teaching and best practices to the classroom. There is growing interest in the field of neuroeducation with the hope that applying neuroscientific research in the classroom will promote better learning, social-emotional experiences, and as a result, improved outcomes for students. In this course, participants will learn about (1) the central components of neuroeducation, the disciplines it’s comprised of and why it’s important; (2) prime conditions needed for the brain to learn; (3) the fundamental learning processes of the brain; (4) how neuroeducation findings can influence teaching and learning.

CEU Course Objectives

Part 1: 

1. Review the key actions that educators can work on to promote whole-school emotional health and wellness.
2. Describe the reasons why investing in whole-school emotional and social wellness is important.
3. Evaluate relationships between students and school staff, and detail why they’re important for social-emotional wellness.
4. Summarize the current recommendations for whole-school emotional and social wellness from educational authorities.
5. Identify specific ways that teachers can help students become more emotionally resilient.
6. Brainstorm ways teachers can support the whole family (and therefore, the student).

Course Date: 2026-01-08

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