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What's the Secret Sauce for Delivering SEL?

What's the Secret Sauce for Delivering SEL?

  • Secondary
  • Health and Physical Education
  • Health
  • Social
  • Mental Health
  • Mindfulness and Meditation
  • Social and Emotional Learning
  • ...

Course summary

This course will assist you in delivering SEL lessons with confidence. You will learn valuable facilitation tools and strategies that’ll leave you feeling inspired and ready to take on any SEL concept.

You will learn:

By completing this course, you’ll be able to:

  • create a safe and supportive environment
  • increase student engagement
  • encourage open sharing
  • read the room and respond accordingly
  • model vulnerability
  • artfully facilitate discussions and debriefs involving tricky topics.

Accreditation:

This course is mapped to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for professional development hours at the following levels:

Proficient Teacher – all states and territories (except NSW and ACT)

  • 3.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning
  • 4.1 Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities.

This course is not currently accredited in the ACT (TQI) or NSW (NESA). However, it can be counted towards teacher identified learning hours (ACT) or NESA PD elective hours (NSW).

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Course Content

Getting Started

Getting Started

01.
Start Here
02.
Set Some Learning Goals
Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment

Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment

03.
How Do I Create a Safe and Supportive Environment?
04.
Lesson Activity
Increasing student engagement

Increasing student engagement

05.
Sustaining Student Engagement: Additional Resources
06.
Increasing Student Engagement
Encouraging Open Sharing

Encouraging Open Sharing

07.
Hands, Heart and Head of Facilitation Skills
08.
How do I encourage student sharing?
What role does vulnerability play?

What role does vulnerability play?

09.
What Role Does Vulnerability Play?
10.
Stepping in to Vulnerability
How to discuss tricky and sensitive topics

How to discuss tricky and sensitive topics

11.
How to Discuss Tricky and Sensitive Topics
Reading the room

Reading the room

12.
Reading the Room
SEL Lessons

SEL Lessons

13.
Cool Lesson Plans
Reflection

Reflection

14.
Reflection
15.
Course Overview
16.
Congratulations

Course instructors

LifeChanger is a preventative mental health and well-being non-profit that empowers young people with the courage to thrive by developing their social, emotional and resilience skills.

Frequently asked questions

How long will this take to complete?

This course will take you 2 hours to complete. Enjoy it in one session or spread it out over a few weeks. You will have ongoing access via your personal dashboard.

Will I get proof of completion?

You will get a Cool.org certificate when you finish, which you can access any time via your personal dashboard, it will also be sent to you by email.

Is this course accredited?

This course is mapped to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for professional development hours at the following levels:

Proficient Teacher – all states and territories (except NSW and ACT)

  • 3.2 Plan and implement well-structured learning and teaching programs or lesson sequences that engage students and promote learning
  • 4.1 Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities.

This course is not currently accredited in the ACT (TQI) or NSW (NESA). However, it can be counted towards teacher identified learning hours (ACT) or NESA PD elective hours (NSW).

What are the curriculum links?

LifeChanger aligns with the Personal and Social Capabilities and Community Health strand of the National Health and Physical Education (HPE) curriculum for students.

Partners

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About LifeChanger

LifeChanger’s mission is to positively impact one million young people annually by providing access to resources and mental health prevention programs that are grounded in positive psychology and strength-based theories and developed around the Five Pillars of Health, Skills, Self, Purpose and Tribe.

LifeChanger believes that many of the confronting challenges and alarming statistics that face today's youth are preventable through pre-emptive, early intervention programs that engage with youth, teachers, parents and local mentors.

LifeChanger classroom activities are delivered by trained facilitators using a pre-emptive and holistic approach to support sustainable growth in schools and communities.

To learn more about LifeChanger, head to www.lifechanger.org.au.

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