SEL FOUNDATIONS
Online Course for Professional Development
This interactive, experiential curriculum not only provides a foundation in SEL, but also helps those who are taking the course to reflect and gain greater awareness regarding their own emotions, thoughts, feelings, and perceptions. Upon completion of this course, the learner will have a deeper understanding of the main competencies of SEL, as well as how to apply those competencies to various situations and settings, such as workplace environment, relationships, and educational institutions.
Approximately 30 hours
Online course available in partnership with University of Massachusetts Global.
Provides 2 PDUs -Graduate Level Professional Development Credits
SEL Foundations professional development online course will not only introduce the foundational tools and strategies within our HiEQ curriculum, but to also provide a more in-depth and comprehensive understanding of the five components of SEL to new partners who would benefit from a more hands-on learning experience. The five components are:
Self awareness: The main objective within this module is to gain a greater understanding of one’s thoughts, feelings, actions, and patterns of behavior. Self awareness is about strengthening one’s intuition to identify when thoughts, feelings, actions, and patterns of behavior are empowering or disempowering him/her.
Self management: Ultimately, when individuals gain greater insight into their thoughts, feelings, actions, and patterns of behavior, they can then learn how to build strategies and tools to manage their reactions to events or other people. It is not necessarily about “controlling” another person or situation; it is, however, about using such insight from “self awareness” to manage or monitor reactions, especially in difficult or stressful situations.
Social awareness: Once individuals are able to assess their own thoughts, feelings, actions, and patterns of behavior and then monitor them accordingly (based on certain situations and people), then individuals learn about how they can better relate to other individuals within their own families, communities, and even the public. Social awareness is all about learning how to strengthen our empathy, especially when we are faced with individuals who have challenging personalities. The main components of social awareness and empathy are acknowledging, validating, and empowering others through acceptance, honesty, and tolerance.
Interpersonal communication: In this fourth module, individuals take all that they have learned in self awareness, self management, and social awareness and apply such insight and skills to their communication with those around them. The main objective in developing interpersonal communication is to not only synthesize self awareness, self management, and social awareness, but to also practice effective communication tools. In this final module, we transcend from our limited sense of selves to empowered sense of selves, so as to practice more compassionate leadership, which ultimately leads to greater reciprocity.
Ethical decision making: In this fifth module, we use the term ethical decision-making and responsibility for this component in order to emphasize the ethical dimensions of what it means to make decisions that are both personally and socially responsible. From small, everyday choices to larger and more consequential ones, students face a myriad of decisions with ethical implications. How do they decide to do the right thing, or even what “the right thing” is?
