The StemSEL Method™ for Education
Understanding and applying core Social Emotional Learning strategies to classroom teaching
Course Description:
The StemSEL Method™ for Education is a program to cultivate the Whole Teacher. It is a type of internal repair process for our 21st century educational system that has the remarkable potential to support the many different content areas within any educational organization.
It is a unique approach to professional development and teacher training designed to help teachers live their unique genius. They are provided research-based tools and practices to manage stress and burnout and to invigorate their educational practices through mindfulness, self-reflection, self-discovery, engagement, and compassion – the inner resources they need to help students fully realize their unique genius and potential to excel academically.
The StemSEL Method™ is unique and is differentiated by two important characteristics. Our Method cultivates the whole teacher with self-renewal through self-care practices and interpersonal abilities as foundational components to instruction and classroom management skills. Second, it focuses instruction on the whole child, including social, emotional, and academic development.
Much like a biological stem cell, given its unique regenerative abilities and the potential to become any needed cell within an organism, The StemSEL Method™ regenerates teachers and crosses curriculum boundaries to bridge all areas of instruction and content.
Participants will gain strategies, skills, and concepts that can be integrated into all grade levels and content areas of education.
Instructional Methods:
Face-to-face, active engagement, explicit instruction, group discussions, individual action-research and action-planning. Online community for deeper reflection and collaboration.
Learning Outcomes:
Course Description:
The StemSEL Method™ for Education is a program to cultivate the Whole Teacher. It is a type of internal repair process for our 21st century educational system that has the remarkable potential to support the many different content areas within any educational organization.
It is a unique approach to professional development and teacher training designed to help teachers live their unique genius. They are provided research-based tools and practices to manage stress and burnout and to invigorate their educational practices through mindfulness, self-reflection, self-discovery, engagement, and compassion – the inner resources they need to help students fully realize their unique genius and potential to excel academically.
The StemSEL Method™ is unique and is differentiated by two important characteristics. Our Method cultivates the whole teacher with self-renewal through self-care practices and interpersonal abilities as foundational components to instruction and classroom management skills. Second, it focuses instruction on the whole child, including social, emotional, and academic development.
Much like a biological stem cell, given its unique regenerative abilities and the potential to become any needed cell within an organism, The StemSEL Method™ regenerates teachers and crosses curriculum boundaries to bridge all areas of instruction and content.
Participants will gain strategies, skills, and concepts that can be integrated into all grade levels and content areas of education.
Instructional Methods:
Face-to-face, active engagement, explicit instruction, group discussions, individual action-research and action-planning. Online community for deeper reflection and collaboration.
Learning Outcomes:
- Participants will build a deep, experiential understanding of core SEL principles and practices.
- Participants will demonstrate, by means of class discussion and written reflection, this deep understanding of the five SEL competencies, as defined by CASEL: Self-awareness, Self-management, Responsible Decision Making, Relationship Skills, and Social Awareness.
- Educators will cultivate teaching practice that address humanity and empathy that can help them inspire students to evolve into compassionate leaders and resilient learners as they embrace their unique genius.
- Educators will broaden their perspectives in ways that help spark creativity and renew inspiration for teaching.
- Participants will deepen their capacity to bring SEL to classroom and community in ways that transform a school and all involved.
- Educators will develop and demonstrate powerful strategies for effective instruction.
