The teacher training workshop series is designed to support your school community and staff with practical tools and techniques to cultivate vital emotional and social skills in the classroom.
Each workshop is designed to be engaging for a duration of 1.5 hours and include the following components:
Research is clear that emotional intelligence development in early childhood begins within positive relationships with adult caregivers. This, of course, not only includes a child’s parents, but also their teachers, with whom they spend the majority of their time. By offering a series of teacher training workshops as professional development, you can further support the growth of emotional intelligence within your school community.
A Brief Introduction to Emotional Intelligence
In this first workshop, teachers will learn:
Throughout the workshop, teachers will have opportunities to:
These new insights will not only empower teachers to deal with their own emotions in a healthy way, but become a positive role model of EQ skills for their students.
Creating a Safe Space
In this practical workshop, teachers will learn:
Throughout the workshop, teachers will have opportunities to:
Teachers will feel more confident in their ability to approach tricky feelings with their students by having a clear “game plan” and supporting student’s EQ development with a safe space for emotional expression, while holding firm behavioral boundaries.
Dealing with Challenging Behavior and Student Conflict
In this applicable workshop, teachers will learn:
Throughout the workshop, teachers will have opportunities to:
During the application portion, teachers will practice in small groups how to respond to challenges and conflicts between students in different real-life scenarios, through the lens of emotional intelligence development.
Developing a Classroom Culture of a Growth Mindset
Many schools unknowingly encourage a fixed mindset in their approach to education, but not yours!
In this innovative workshop, teachers will learn:
Throughout the workshop, teachers will have opportunities to:
By the end of this workshop, teachers will be able to clearly explain to their students how learning works (from a neuroscience perspective) and how to embrace failure as an essential part of growth.
