Course Topic: Personal Growth
Personal growth is when we try to improve any bad habits we may have.
It can be encouraged in different ways and by many different activities. In the classroom, a teacher’s job is to provide and motivate learning as well as to provide a safe space in which students can work on themselves.
Discover more about personal growth in the following courses.
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Develop an understanding of the positive impact of mindfulness practices on mood, communication, and stress levels. Discover a variety of practices to use for yourself and/or introduce to students.
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.
Stress Relief and Well-being Strategies for Teachers
Understand what causes stress and how our bodies react to it. Discover effective strategies to relieve it, and apply them to improve your mental health and well-being.
Life Coaching for Teachers: Happy Teachers for Better Students
Acquire an understanding of the importance of setting healthy boundaries to cope with overworking. Learn how to regulate emotions and respond assertively but appropriately.
Mental Health Awareness for Teachers and Students
Develop an understanding of mental health awareness in order to identify potential issues, in both colleagues and students. Implement appropriate support strategies and learn how to foster teacher well-being.
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.
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.
Digital Wellbeing: A New Challenge for Teachers and Students
Learn how to raise students’ awareness about the effects of digital technology in their lives, in order to help them take control of their digital well-being.
Empowered Teachers: Rediscover Your Motivation and Energy
Create a personal roadmap to empowerment by reflecting on your needs and inspirations. Become aware of the need for general well-being and self-determination which promotes motivation.
Environmental Stewardship: How to Reconnect With Nature
Acquire an understanding of ecosystem processes, fostering a sense of responsibility for its preservation. Guide students towards a greener future by encouraging them to view their actions from an environmental perspective.
Discover the 7Cs: Learning for Life (and Work) in the 21st Century
Acquire knowledge on how to innovate school curricula by gaining a systematic understanding of 7 of the most important soft skills in the 21st century as a response to migration and rapid technological development.
Enough Theory, Let’s Play! Fun Games for Developing the Whole Child
Discover a range of games to be implemented in the classroom to enhance the students’ capacities of self-expression and promote their personal development.
Preventing Early School Leaving: Strategies and Tools for Teachers
Explore different tools to prevent early school leaving and engage in practical activities to assess the risks and potentialities of your schools. Focus on national and international youth exchanges, trips, and different activities.
Inclusive Education for School Leaders: Setting the Vision and Agenda
Acquire strategic managerial tools to promote inclusion in schools. Explore different leadership approaches and develop skills to create inclusive environments. Learn how to assess and improve school inclusivity.
Playtime and Downtime for Teachers and Students: the Psychology of Time to Feel Good and Do Good!
Gain an understanding of playtime and downtime concepts. Develop cognitive, social, problem-solving, and resilience skills through new activities and regular rest, preparing yourself for new tasks and challenges.
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.
Creative Strategies for Language Teachers: Make it Easy, Make it Real!
Learn how to create an effective learning environment through the integration of an array of educational tools that support various learning styles. Discover strategies to develop the students’ language skills.
Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy: Sharing the Responsibility
Acquire an awareness of the morality and consequences of your own online activities, therefore developing the capacity to enhance digital literacy in the classroom.
Exploring Biodiversity and Ecology Through the Lens of Creativity and Culture
Learn how to regain contact with the natural habitat and help the students do it by combining hands-on ecology with visual arts, storytelling, music, and others.
Neuroscience: Understand How Your Students Learn
Deepen your understanding of the learning process, assisting your students in reaching their full potential. Discover how to integrate realistic neuroeducation strategies into the classroom for long-lasting retention of knowledge.
Action Plans for Sustainable Classrooms and Schools
Integrate eco-friendly and sustainable practices into your classrooms and educational institutions.
Examine current habits, identify areas for improvement, and explore alternative, environmentally conscious approaches.
Boosting Creative Thinking and Problem Solving
Acquire a new conception of the mechanisms of creative thinking and discover new strategies to nurture your immagination, improve creativity, and generate new ideas.
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.
Strategies for Understanding and Engaging Teenagers in Learning
Discover effective strategies to communicate better with teenage students by reflecting on their perspective. Explore different techniques to help them become more autonomous, responsible, and motivated during the learning process.
Students’ Mental Health and Well-being Introductive Course
Gain valuable knowledge and skills related to mental health from a health promotion perspective. Learn practical strategies to support both the students' and your own well-being as teachers.
Cultivating Self-Leadership: The 8 Cs for Personal Growth and Success
Gain valuable tools to foster self-leadership between you and your students. Develop strategies to cultivate the 8 Cs of self-leadership to create a positive impact in the classroom and empower students for lifelong success.
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.
Hands-on Pedagogy for Early Childhood Education: From Sensory Education to First ICT Uses
Dive into the essentials of hands-on pedagogy in early childhood education, focusing on engaging young learners through play, creativity, and technology. Learn to adapt your classroom to diverse learning styles, fostering holistic development and a love for learning.
Holistic Approaches to Early Years Education
Develop a holistic perspective of infant education considering a child’s intellectual, emotional, and social potential. Discover practical ways to transform the current mainstream methodology.
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.
Multiple Intelligences for Deeper Learning
Explore the theory of multiple intelligences that allows educators to take into consideration different kinds of learners by reinforcing each type of intelligence, which allows tailoring the learning process to every student.
The Finnish Approach to Art and Design in Education
Learn how various learning environments nurture artistic educational experiences. Gain knowledge about the Finnish approach to art and education. Apply these principles into your own educational contexts.