Incorporating SEL Skills into the Content Areas

(Grades PreK-5) / Flex Course

PDI Course Number: 126T02 / UCSD Course Number: EDUC42255

Course Description

Are you finding it difficult to incorporate social and emotional learning (SEL) best practices into your content-rich classroom? Now, more than ever, social and emotional learning is the impetus to academic growth. This online course is designed to take a deep dive into social-emotional learning and the core competencies that surround it. Teachers will learn how to use growth mindset principles and strategies so that an inclusive classroom community can be built and supported, resulting in an atmosphere of self-awareness and self-efficacy. Teachers will learn how to use interactive read-alouds to promote perspective taking, and they will learn how writing can be used as a pathway to promote self-awareness. In terms of math, teachers will learn how to create shared learning targets and connect the mathematical practice standards to SEL so that students can become mathematically proficient. The content area of science is also explored, as teachers learn how to incorporate SEL best practices through project-based learning so that students are motivated to become engaged and informed world citizens. Teachers will also learn about the importance of incorporating SEL best practices into the arts, and that doing so fosters a complete and whole student perspective. By the end of this course, teachers will feel more confident and successful in their quest to embed the principles of social-emotional learning into their own teaching practices within the content areas so that their students can become complete and whole global citizens. This course is worth 3 ⅓ semester units/5 quarter units (50 hours of training) from University of California San Diego (UCSD) Division of Extended Studies. For detailed information on university credit, click here.

"Excellent! I learned so much about SEL practices and strategies." - Lynn Sebia