Social-Emotional Learning: Self-Awareness and Self-Management

Social-Emotional Learning

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.

Self-Awareness and Self-Management

• Course Type: Self-Paced, Fully-Facilitated
• Course Length: 10 Hours
• Course Access: Participants have 45 days from the date of enrollment to complete the course

This 10-hour course explores self-awareness and accurate self-perception—key components of social-emotional learning. The course highlights the importance of teaching students to identify emotions, recognize personal strengths, build self-confidence and self-efficacy, and foster accurate self-perception. The course contains two substantive units:

Self-Awareness

Self-awareness affects all other social-emotional competencies. This unit provides tools and techniques to help students look inward in healthy ways, identify emotions, recognize strengths, boost self-confidence and self-efficacy, improve self-talk, and accurately perceive themselves. Cultivating these essential skills will support students’ success in school and life.

Self-Management

Self-management is critical for students and educators in achieving short- and long-term goals. This unit covers goal-setting, stress management, organizational skills, internal motivation, self-discipline, and impulse control.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Explore the definition of self-awareness and the research supporting its importance in the classroom.
• Discover strategies to help students learn to identify their emotions, recognize their strengths.
• Explore strategies to foster self-efficacy, positive self-talk, and accurate self-perception.
• Discuss the importance of impulse control and self-discipline.
• Examine strategies to foster self-management, internal motivation, and self-discipline in students.
• Reflect on the elements of an SEL classroom present in their classroom and target areas for improvement.