This certificate consists of three self-paced, online courses titled, Understanding Mental Health and Suicide Prevention, Trauma-Informed Practices for K-12 Classrooms, and Transformative Social and Emotional Learning. Together these courses will provide you with a solid foundation and tools to increase your ability to support the mental health of your students.
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Description
This certificate consists of three courses which will provide you with a solid foundation and tools to increase your ability to support the mental health of your students.
Understanding Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
Over the past few years, we have seen a troubling increase in reports of children and youth struggling with their mental health. The isolation and disruption of COVID-19 have contributed to this problem, but there are other factors involved as well.
Children's mental health is affecting how we teach more than ever before. Teachers aren't just being asked, but can't do their jobs without addressing the mental health of their students. We know that mental health does not exist in isolation, but affects and is affected by many factors. What do teachers need to know, and how can they help?
This course provides some basic information about children's mental health, including the history of children's mental health policy; warning signs of mental health challenges; ways to address mental illness stigma; everyday strategies for promoting mental health; and helpful resources for children and youth, teachers, and families.
Trauma-Informed Practices for K-12 Classrooms
In this course, you will be invited to adopt a nuanced definition of trauma that will ultimately help you to better understand the experiences of your students and yourself in the classroom. In addition, you will be given a brief overview of basic biological processes that dictate how individuals process trauma and how individuals behave in response to trauma. You will learn that trauma is not just an event, but an experience, and you will learn that how we respond to trauma is most often an automatic reaction that is outside of our conscious control. With this information in mind, you will then have the opportunity to consider numerous trauma-informed teaching strategies, determining which are best suited to you, your students, and your classrooms.
Transformative Social and Emotional Learning
School districts nationwide have been implementing various forms of social-emotional learning into the school day, hoping that by explicitly teaching awareness around self and others, students will have a stronger connection to school and have higher levels of success in their relationships, and academic learning. While some schools are implementing social-emotional learning curriculum during advisory time or as a specific class in the school day, other school sites have shifted to teaching and modeling it within school culture as a whole.
The purpose of this course is to take you even deeper beyond teaching and modeling SEL competencies and move you to a place of reflective practice focusing on examining educational conditions, otherwise known as transformative SEL.
Together we will look at the political landscape of SEL in the country, which is changing rapidly. This course is not meant to polarize us based on our political stance, but rather to help us collectively understand how the landscape impacts us and our students.
This course is designed to dig deeper into the body and understand how discomfort can show up when implementing transformative social-emotional learning, and the responsibility we have to holistically implement transformative practices into educational systems.
PRICING & DISCOUNTS
Through the generosity of the PrairieCare Fund in Memory of Claudia Murray, we are providing the entire certificate at a discounted rate of $129.
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Accessibility
If you need any disability-related accommodations to participate in this course fully, please contact the CACE staff at cace@augsburg.edu or 507-923-4210. It is most helpful if requests are made at least two weeks in advance of the start of the course.
What you'll Learn
Understanding Mental Health and Suicide Prevention
- Identify social, historical, and emerging trends that affect mental health services for children and youth.
- Interpret warning signs of mental illness in children and youth to provide appropriate support and referrals.
- Plan ways to address stigma, discrimination, and implicit bias surrounding mental health and mental illness through accurate information.
- Identify techniques that can help children with mental health conditions to succeed socially and academically.
- Examine resources and supports for classroom teachers, students, and family/caregivers.
Trauma-Informed Practices for K-12 Classrooms
- Recognize signs and symptoms of trauma.
- Recognize the way that trauma impacts the brains and bodies of students.
- Recognize the impact of trauma on learning and development.
- Plan classroom practices and strategies that can create safe learning spaces that promote healing for students who have experienced trauma.
Transformative Social and Emotional Learning
- Identify your relationship to social and emotional learning.
- Recognize how TSEL is transformative and how to employ it in the classroom.
- Examine the cultural landscape of transformative social and emotional learning.
- Explore the role of transformative justice in implementing TSEL.
- Practice reflecting on your own social and emotional competencies and strategies for creating a more transformative classroom.
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Ideal For
Practicing and preservice K-12 teachers in all subject areas.
Key Features
- On-demand
- Self-paced online
- Asynchronous
- Mobile-friendly
- Interactive
- Reflective
- Thought-provoking
- CEU awarding
Cancellation Policy
You may request a refund up to 7 days from the purchase date. The registration fee, minus a $35 processing fee, will only be refunded if less than 10% of the course has been completed.
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Access Instructions
This certificate course uses an online course site to deliver content and facilitate activities. You will receive account set-up emails that will include information about how to access the course site. If you register using a school email address, these messages will often end up in spam folders. You should receive the Moodle login information within one hour of registering and paying for the workshop. If you have any questions or concerns about accessing Moodle please contact the CACE staff at cace@augsburg.edu or 507-923-4210.
If you need any disability-related accommodations to participate in this course fully, please contact the CACE staff at cace@augsburg.edu or 507-923-4210. It is most helpful if requests are made at least two weeks in advance of the start of the course.