Classrooms increasingly recognize the importance of emotional awareness, as emotions significantly impact students’ learning and relationships.
However, educators often lack effective strategies for integrating emotional understanding into daily teaching practices.
This course introduces educators to key strategies for recognizing and incorporating emotions shaped by biology, personal history, behavior, and context in the classroom.
Participants will learn to identify physical signs of emotions in both them and their students, explore the influence of family and community on emotional connections, and reflect on how behaviors shape the learning environment.
Additionally, they’ll examine the broader “backstory” of thoughts and feelings to build a more empathetic and supportive classroom culture.
By the end of the course, educators will have a toolkit for enhancing emotional awareness, which will help deepen connections, boost student engagement, and foster a more inclusive and empathetic classroom.
What is included
Unmatched Support: full day chat assistance
Fully Fundable: tailored on Erasmus+ budgets
Flexibility Guaranteed: easy changes with minimal restrictions
360° experience: from coffee breaks to cultural visits
Recognize and analyze emotions in themselves and students;
Understand how personal and collective histories shape emotional responses;
Develop strategies to promote emotional awareness;
Integrate emotional recognition into teaching practices to support student well-being;
Build empathetic relationships in the classroom;
Adapt teaching methods to address students’ emotional needs.
Tentative schedule
Day 1 – Navigating life’s overwhelm
Introduction to the course, the school, and the external week activities;
Icebreaker activities;
Presentations of the participants’ schools;
Engaging in body and mind dynamics to reconnect;
Practicing improvisational theatre and movement using the emotional wheel.
Day 2 – Navigating life’s uncertainties
Morning writing routine;
Gentle approaches to student feelings;
Balancing parental expectations with personal desires;
Understanding boundaries and limits;
Comparing accusatory vs. assertive language;
Managing anger, boredom, and disgust;
Uncovering hidden community feelings;
Group activity: installation on hate and “negative emotions”.
Day 3 – The impact of comparison
Exploring the emotional wheel;
Art therapy: mapping my heart;
Reflection on emotions from the past month;
Neuroscience insights;
Creating an emotional moving canvas;
Walking meditation;
Multi-sensory experience.
Day 4 – Building connections with others
Cultivating openness and honesty in students;
Strategies to enhance empathy, joy, and overall well-being;
Mindfulness through the story of the fir tree;
Creating together: the Tree of Joy art installation;
Co-creating a mural: the forest as our shared masterpiece;
Practical tips for fostering happiness and well-being.
Day 5 – Embracing an open heart
Stream-of-consciousness writing for self-discovery;
Collaborative art activities to foster emotional connection within the community;
Visualization exercises with sensory engagement;
Reflecting on aspirations for the upcoming months;
Positive psychology workshop: creating your “Box of Joy”.
Day 6 – Course closure and cultural activities
Course evaluation: round-up of acquired competencies, feedback, and discussion;
Awarding of the course Certificate of Attendance;
Excursion and other external cultural activities.
Dates and locations
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