Courses

Cost: $44
Modules: 7
CPE Credit Hours: 12

Enrollment includes:

  • Free, one-year TCEA membership for each participant ($49 value)
  • TCEA digital badge
  • TCEA certificate

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Social and Emotional Learning

Research shows that a focus on social and emotional development can boost student achievement by 11 percentile points. Your classroom is a key environment for fostering this growth, making it essential to understand how social-emotional learning (SEL) works. This course provides practical strategies you can apply immediately to help students increase self-awareness, improve academic performance, and promote positive behaviors.

What You’ll Learn

  • Understand the connection between social-emotional learning (SEL) and student achievement
  • Explore the importance of self-awareness and self-management in the classroom
  • Learn strategies to foster social awareness and relationship skills
  • Apply techniques to promote responsible decision-making
  • Gain actionable methods to support SEL and enhance overall student success

Learn with TCEA?

  • Our courses are streamlined for efficient and lasting learning.
  • We share ideas and resources that you won’t be able to find anywhere else.
  • We also offer ideas and techniques based on years of experience in professional development, integrating educator feedback to always meet the needs of course participants.

Self-Paced Online Course

Social and Emotional Learning is a self-paced, online program. Participants can begin anytime and go at their own speed throughout the program.

Upon enrollment, you will receive a program invitation email from TCEA’s learning management system that will give you access to the self-paced course. Within the course, you will find modules that must be moved through in sequential order.

 

Course Modules

Understanding SEL: Explore the fundamentals of social and emotional learning, including its benefits and the five core competencies.

Self-Awareness and Self-Management: Learn strategies for helping students recognize their emotions, thoughts, and values, and develop skills for managing their behavior.

Social Awareness and Relationship Skills: Discover approaches for fostering empathy, perspective-taking, and healthy relationship-building among students.

Responsible Decision-Making: Explore ways to help students make constructive choices about personal behavior and social interactions.

Integrating SEL Across the Curriculum: Learn how to embed SEL into academic instruction and create a classroom culture that supports social-emotional growth.