Course Topic: Social and Emotional Intelligence
Emotional intelligence is the ability to understand other people’s feelings and emotions.
It is particularly important for school teachers (and students!) as it helps them understand group dynamics, and respond appropriately without underestimating or overheating conflict.
Emotional intelligence also allows teachers to manage difficult communication, create strong relational bonds, and support students to reach their full potential.
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Acquire an understanding of group dynamics by discovering how tensions, alliances, and relational struggle can interfere with learning. Learn to encourage active listening, empathy, and emotional literacy.
Art as Therapy: Self-Expression and Special Needs in Art Education
Acquire an understanding of the therapeutic power of visual arts and their importance in teaching students with special needs.
Art, Music, and Dance Therapy for an Inclusive Classroom
Discover the power of creativity for creating an inclusive classroom and fostering motivation, autonomy, self-esteem, participation, and collaboration.
Resilience and Well-being Strengths for Teachers
Gain an understanding of the responsibility to cultivate resilience strengths in order to attain a stable state of well-being. Explore strategies such as emotional management, fostering a positive mindset, and cultivating empathy and compassion.
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) for Successful Schools
Learn to develop your own course of action for promoting Social and Emotional Learning in the school through reflection, sharing experiences, and creating a unique path tailored for your school community.
Leadership and Management for School Principals
Work on your leadership strengths while also recognizing potential areas for growth and realistic solution strategies. Develop your professional role as leaders and identify with it.
Transformational Leadership: How to Empower Followers and Communities
Discover the key principles and characteristics of transformational leadership, practicing emotional intelligence, active listening, and empathy within the framework of Non-Violent Communication.
A Satisfying School Experience: Strategies and Skills for Teachers
Discover innovative approaches to create a meaningful school experience and explore practical ideas for fostering a dynamic, creative environment. Improve student engagement and promote healthy school-family relations with these strategies.
Playful Learning: Strategies for Reducing Stress and Energizing the Classroom
Acquire knowledge and skills to implement a common language of well-being and the principles of Playful Learning in the classroom. Concentrate on a heart-full approach and how to build a strong relationship between school and home.
The Social, the Emotional, and the Digital Approach
Acquire a deeper understanding of the connotations and implications of diversity. Discover strategies to prevent conflicts and promote emotional literacy among your students. Learn about digital tools to use for these goals.
The Well-Being Code: Energy Tools and Mind-Body Activities for Self-Care
Acquire stress management techniques, resilience-building skills, and coping strategies to promote personal well-being and social-emotional learning. Discover methods to create a positive learning environment.
Conflict Management for School Staff
Discover practical strategies, involving conflict mediation, non-violent communication, and role-plays, to develop an effective conflict-resolution toolkit and a renewed feeling of purpose in your professional role.
Embracing Diversity, Preventing Bullying and Violence
Deepen the knowledge of the underlying dynamics of discrimination and bullying in schools, as they tend to have negative effects on learning.
Emotional Intelligence Tools to Understand and Respond to Trauma
Explore strategies for classroom management that involve teaching emotional intelligence, creating a psychologically safe learning environment, and mitigating the adverse effects of trauma.
Learning By Doing: Games and Activities to Develop the Whole Child
Explore active learning strategies that involve learning by doing and discover the value of teaching and learning through useful activities and games, such as Role Play, Peer Teaching, and Body-Play Learning.
Bullying Prevention and EdTech for a Wholesome School Environment
Learn how to create a healthy learning environment where bullying and discrimination prevention will be taken care of. Get inspired on how to integrate ICT into class, practicing methodologies to understand prejudice and prevent conflicts.
Cultivating Self-Esteem: A Practical Guide for Teachers and Principals
Gain tools to cultivate self-esteem, explore pillars of self-esteem, use Nonviolent Communication techniques, and foster a Growth Mindset for personal growth.
Gender and Sexuality: How to Support and Guide Your Students
Deepen your understanding of an array of concepts surrounding sexuality, acquiring the capacity to differentiate them and pass the knowledge onto the pupils to create a safe environment that supports them in the disclosure of their own sexuality.
Music Activities to Stimulate Emotion, Creativity and Engagement
Experience the power of music and learn how to use it to meet the students’ needs. Discover how to include music in the classroom to develop cognitive and emotional abilities by implementing the principles of music psychology and music therapy.
Social-Emotional Learning and Safety Skills in Finnish Education
Develop an understanding of the Social and Emotional Learning and explore the concept of safety skills education. Discover how important your own well-being is for maintaining a positive learning environment.
Bring Mindfulness to Your Class with Practical Activities and Museum Visits
Discover the most interesting mindfulness programs currently used in schools. Learn how to introduce children and teens to mindfulness practice with playful and imaginative visual-based activities.
Conflict and Bullying Prevention through Role-playing and Storytelling
Discover how the use of different forms of performance art can help resolve conflict within the classroom or prevent bullying. Learn how to foster active listening, empathy, and emotional intelligence among the students.
Creating Safe Classrooms for Trauma-Affected Students
Enhance your abilities to support trauma-affected children. Learn about the impact of trauma and stress on children and gain practical tools for creating a trauma-informed, strength-based classroom.
Early Child Development: Meeting the Unique Needs of Every Pupil
Gain insights into early childhood development, emphasizing personalized teaching methods, cognitive growth, and enhancing social-emotional skills. Learn to design inclusive learning environments and action plans to support each child's unique journey.
Eco-Anxiety: From Negative Emotions to Positive Actions and Hopes
Enhance your ability to recognize emotions related to environmental issues in both yourself and your students. Explore various ways to support your students' emotional processes and foster their emotional resilience.
Effective Communication Strategies for Supportive Parent-Teacher Relations
Discover an array of communication strategies to adapt your teaching and collaboration with the parents of the students to modern standards, both in person and through digital educational platforms.
Engaging the School Communities for Holistic Education
Learn to foster a positive learning environment, promote students' well-being, engage families, implement innovative methodologies like Playful Learning, reduce stress, and create a cohesive school community.
Leadership Competencies and Skills for Teachers
Learn how to support the professional development of your colleagues as well as how to collaborate with the students' families, promote cooperation within the school community, and support organizational change.
LGBTQIA+ in Education: Building Empathy and Acceptance
Gain a comprehensive understanding of LGBTQIA+ identities to foster empathy, acceptance, and inclusivity in the classroom. Learn strategies to address biases and prejudices and create a more supportive educational environment for students.