A Mindful Pedagogy: Strategies for Creating Compassionate and Purposeful Learning Spaces

3 Salary Points | 112.5 Hours

$149.00
$149.00
$149.00
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A Mindful Pedagogy: Strategies for Creating Compassionate and Purposeful Learning Spaces K-12 teachers professional development course

Course Description

This professional development course is for LAUSD teachers and is available for salary advancement and recertification. This course aims to show educators how a mindful pedagogy can support meeting their professional demands. The course begins by reviewing teacher’s various demands as well as the importance of being able to support students’ ability to meet standards, develop social-emotional skills, and build the skills needed to thrive.

This professional learning course defines a mindful, engaged pedagogy and explains how establishing a personal mindfulness practice can support teachers in all areas, including classroom management and self-care.  Educators will create an action plan to implement mindfulness practices into their classroom routine to support planning and preparation, and in meeting their professional demands. The action plan will also ask participants to self-assess ways mindfulness supports classroom instruction and student success.

Objectives

In this course, Teachers will:

  • Review and reflect on how the diverse needs of our students require educators to employ a variety of teaching methods to support student academic and social-emotional needs.
  • Appraise the impact stress has on teacher instruction and the school and classroom community
  • Examine ways mindfulness helps bring awareness to teacher needs and the needs of their students and school community.
  • Investigate ways mindfulness can support teacher self-care and teacher instruction.
  • Experiment with mindfulness activities to help create a positive classroom climate and a community of learners.
  • Appraise ways mindfulness supports instruction and helps teachers meet their professional responsibilities as described in the Danielson Framework for Teaching.
  • Design and employ a personal mindfulness and self-care practice using activities and resources offered in this course.
  • Use the Five Element video and audio resources and appraise impact activities can have on teacher wellbeing and instruction.
  • Understand and analyze interpersonal neurobiology, attachment theory, and impact it has on classroom behavior and relationships.
  • Define compassion and analyze the role compassion and mindfulness play in being an effective teacher.
  • Implement a mindful and compassionate approach to challenging student behavior.
  • Appraise which mindfulness implementation model can best support their teacher and classroom routines within the context of their own school.

 

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  • Upon purchase, you will receive an email receipt and be able to log in to your course at eClassroom Sign in. You have 180 days (about 6 months) from your purchase to complete your course.
  • If you haven’t already done so, please be sure to add your LAUSD Employee ID number and School Name on your “My Account” page. This only needs to be done once.

If you have any questions, check out our FAQs or email support@cecreditsonline.org.

LAUSD teachers are able to submit up to 12 credits/salary points from CE Credits Online per trimester (Jan-Apr, May-Aug, Sept-Dec).

Receiving Salary Points

  • Upon completion, your completion paperwork will be submitted directly to the LAUSD Professional Development Unit by CE Credits Online along with the NA Claim for Staff Development Point Project form at the beginning of the following month.
  • PLEASE DO NOT SUBMIT ADDITIONAL PAPERWORK If you decide to request graduate credits for your completed course, the official transcript you receive from the university will be for your own personal records. Each course can only be submitted once, and we will provide all necessary paperwork to LAUSD.
  • Salary point credit approval for NA Forms is done by the Professional Development Unit and may take up to 3 months to process. The delay in processing your salary points will not affect the eligibility date of your schedule advancement, as they are backdated to the date of completion. If the points from your NA Form have not been posted to your account on the LAUSD website at the end of 3 months, please contact the Salary Allocation Unit at 213-241-5100.
  • We highly recommend that you check the number of salary points you have in your account before you complete your CE Credits Online course(s). Then check again eight weeks after receiving notification on your Student Homepage that your completion paperwork has been processed and submitted to the Salary Point Committee by CE Credits Online. Since the new salary points are added to your account without identifying the coursework for which you earned the Salary Points this will help you to identify receiving the additional salary point(s).
  • You may check the status of your Salary Points.

Receiving Graduate-Level Professional Development Credits

  • Upon completion, email support@cecreditsonline.org and let us know you have completed the course, which university you have selected (see University Partners).
  • CE Credits Online will email you instructions on how to pay for and obtain the credits.
  • CE Credits Online will forward all necessary documentation to the university you selected enabling you to receive an official transcript.   
  • You must check with your district to ensure the credits received will meet your specific requirements. We will not be held responsible if your school, district or state does not accept the credits issued.