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

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-Care and Responsible Decision-Making

• 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 self-paced, 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.