Social-Emotional Learning: Self-Care and Responsible Decision-Making

Social-Emotional Learning: Self-Care and Responsible Decision-Making

Content Warning

This course includes sensitive mental health topics intended to promote social-emotional learning but is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Please carefully consider the nature of the content before enrolling.

Course Details

Course Type:

• Self-Paced, Fully-Facilitated
• Cohort, Fully-Facilitated

Course Length: 10 Hours

Course Access:

• Self-Paced: Each course includes 45 days of interactive access. If you purchase multiple courses within a single concentration at the same time, your total access period will be extended (e.g., two courses = 90 days, three courses = 135 days, etc.).
  
  Upon enrollment, your dashboard will initially display 45 days per course. By the next business day, your end date will be adjusted to reflect the correct total access period based on the number of courses purchased.
  
  After your enrollment period ends, you will continue to have read-only access to your courses.

• Cohort: Participants will follow a set start and end date, determined by their school district.

Course Description

This 10-hour course explores self-care and responsible decision-making, core social-emotional competencies that benefit students individually and bolster other SEL competencies. The course includes two substantive units:

Self-Care

This unit discusses concepts and includes activities that encourage students to understand and maintain happiness, demonstrate resilience, find purpose in their lives and studies, and regularly practice mindfulness. Early teaching of these concepts empowers students to take ownership over emotional responses and personal circumstances.

Responsible Decision-Making

This unit explores the teaching of active decision-making, including models for investigating, problem-solving, and reflective practice. It emphasizes explicitly teaching decision-making processes to help students and educators adopt a more purposeful approach to choices and learn from outcomes.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Examine the definition and importance of self-care.
• Explore strategies that students can use to practice happiness, build resilience, and find purpose.
• Discuss the concept of responsible decision-making.
• Learn strategies to increase information literacy, problem-solving, and reflection.
• Reflect on the elements of an SEL classroom present in their classroom and target areas for improvement.