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This Course Is Included In The Accelerator

25 PD Hours/2.5 CEUs

Online, Self-Paced

SEL Course for K-12 Teachers. Follow this research-based approach to using the arts as a vehicle for social-emotional learning.

Provided in the Course:

 

  • 12 Video-Based Lessons with Handouts & Templates

  • Transcripts and Closed Captioning

  • Sample Strategies and Curriculum Templates to Use Right Away

About this Course

Are you seeing a rise in the social-emotional learning needs of your students? You’re not alone. In a recent 2019 Teacher Survey, 60% of teachers that SEL is one of the key factors they feel contribute to increased student behavior concerns in the classroom. Teachers also know that the arts are one of the best ways to positively impact student learning.

This social-emotional learning course was created for educators who want to use the arts as an avenue to teaching the SEL competencies, but aren’t sure how or need a roadmap of research-based ideas and strategies that work.

Inside, you’ll discover the simple steps to using SEL in and through the arts that weave the social-emotional needs of your students into your existing curriculum no matter what you teach. You can start or complete this course at any time – membership access is included.

CURRICULUM FOR THIS COURSE

This course is on-demand and can be completed any time after joining the Accelerator.

3 Lessons:

  • Defining Social-Emotional Learning
  • Why is Social-Emotional Learning Necessary?
  • Taking a Deep Dive into the SEL Competencies

3 Activities:

  • Create a personal reflection/narrative identifying individual classroom needs for SEL
  • Survey fellow teachers in your building about SEL
  • Examine the answers in your survey surrounding the 5 SEL competencies

1 Assignment:

5-question check-in quiz

3 Lessons:

  • How the Arts Enhance Social-Emotional Learning
  • SEL Throughout the Day
  • School, Parent and Community Buy In

3 Activities:

  • Complete a foldable with competency sections and how the arts foster each one
  • Choose a morning routine or brain break and utilize it with students
  • Complete either the Parent Letter or Staff Letter (for resistant colleagues), sharing an SEL activity and sharing the “what” and “why” behind arts-based SEL

1 Assignment:

5-question check-in quiz

3 Lessons:

  • SEL and Visual Art Strategies
  • SEL, Music, and Dance Strategies
  • SEL and Theatre Strategies

3 Activities:

  • Complete arts-based SEL Competencies Strategies/Activities Wheel for Visual Art
  • Complete arts-based SEL Competencies Strategies/Activities Wheel for Music and Dance
  • Complete arts-based SEL Competencies Strategies/Activities Wheel for Theatre

1 Assignment:

5-question check-in quiz

3 Lessons:

  • How to assess Arts-based SEL Competencies
  • How to use Curriculum Mining, Logistics, and Arts Activities to Connect with Current Curriculum
  • The 4 Steps to Transform Existing Lessons to include Arts-Based SEL

3 Activities:

  • Complete the formative assessment resource
  • Determine SEL-based vocabulary connections in curriculum
  • Complete the Curriculum Mining Organizer

1 Final Assignment:

Use the 4 codified steps from the course to transform existing lesson plan through SEL and the Arts.

Meet your SEL Goals through the Arts

Led by instructors Dr. Jamie Hipp and Alyssa Pilarcik, this self-paced online course is perfect for anyone looking to integrate the arts as part of a meaningful social-emotional learning approach.

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