Resilience in the Classroom - Empowering Educators, Strengthening Learners: Tools and Strategies for Well-being in the school cosmos
Resilience, often likened to the soul's immune system, serves as the secret ingredient enabling individuals to bounce back, evolve, and thrive amidst life's unpredictable storms. Some people grow through what they go through while others may struggle. Life constantly throws us challenges and adversity is part of it. Our ability to adapt and overcome these adversities is what resilience is about.
Description
Resilience, often likened to the soul's immune system, serves as the secret ingredient enabling individuals to bounce back, evolve, and thrive amidst life's unpredictable storms.
Some people grow through what they go through while others may struggle. Life constantly throws us challenges and adversity is part of it. Our ability to adapt and overcome these adversities is what resilience is about. How we face the challenges and bounce back (growth) is what matters? Some people are naturally resilient while for others, they can learn skills and strategies to better weather any storm.
For educators, delving into the realm of resilience unveils a treasure trove of insights and strategies. Imagine a seminar as an adventure into this world — a journey offering teachers not just a shield for their own resilience, but a map to cultivate this vital trait in their students.
By embracing this 'immune system' analogy, educators unlock the power to create a nurturing environment for students.
Learning objectives
Resilience is an elementary competency that can help teachers and students in their everyday school life in many ways:
1. Adaptability: Resilience equips them with the ability to adapt to challenges, changes, and setbacks they encounter in academics and life.
2. Emotional Well-being: It promotes emotional health, managing stress, anxiety, and how to work with difficult emotions skillfully.
3. Problem-Solving Skills: develop strong problem-solving skills and explore how to approach difficulties with a positive mindset.
4. Persistence and Determination: It fosters a sense of persistence, determination known as grit while encouraging them to work towards their goals despite obstacles.
5. Improved Learning: Resilience positively impacts learning outcomes, as students embrace new experiences with a renewed sense of agency.
6. Life Skills: Building resilience in the school cosmos cultivates essential life skills such as perseverance, self-confidence, and the ability to bounce back from setbacks, preparing students for future challenges.
Methodology & assessment
They will also learn tools and practices based on social emotional learning (SEL) to enhance and support the wellbeing of their students and foster a more resilient classroom.
Materials, digital tools & other learning resources
Prerequisites are an interest in intercultural exchanges, a sense of curiosity and openness about Mindfulness, basic knowledge of using digital media and the willingness to work in groups in a practice-oriented manner.
This seminar aims to empower schools with practical strategies and experiential learning to navigate and thrive in the face of adversity. We will also explore practices to enhance our overall well-being so that we can flourish in life, manage our stress, adapt to life’s challenges and foster a healthy work life balance.
Through engaging discussions, practices, skills based learning and conceptual understanding participants will learn to develop their inner strengths and cultivate self-care practices that support their well-being as they embark on a journey towards greater resilience and living a more fulfilling life.
Participants will explore science backed strategies and techniques such as building inner strengths like awareness and compassion, mindful communication, managing emotional regulation, optimism, fostering positive coping mechanisms, positive mindset and connection with body-based practices like movement and laughter.
They will also learn tools and practices based on social emotional learning (SEL) to enhance and support the wellbeing of their students and foster a more resilient classroom.
Individual consultations and an extensive accompanying and cultural program to culturally significant places in the Algarve complete the seminar week.
Certification details
The seminar lasts 30 seminar hours and consists of theoretical and practical units, as well as a constant exchange of specialist knowledge. In addition to plenary sessions, discussions in small groups and joint workshops, individual working groups will develop and present their own projects. You will also have plenty of free time outside of the seminar program to enjoy the benefits of the Algarve.
Pricing, packages and other information
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Price:1476Euro
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Course package content:
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As part of our concept, seminar participants are always accommodated together in a four-star hotel and can also exchange ideas outside the official program during meals and coffee breaks. Your physical well-being is taken care of with full catering with delicacies that are always of a local character. We also invite you to dine outside the hotel in an exclusive and typical way - a unique culinary experience.
We are deeply rooted in the Algarve and enable you to immerse yourself in the culture of Portugal by showing you our very personal treasures of the region on two cultural excursions, taking you to our favorite places and bringing you into contact with the country and its people - intercultural understanding with a personal touch and lots of fun.
The seminar will take place at the 4-star Hotel AGUA RIVERSIDE LAGOA Quinta Do Parchal (Algarve) in Portugal (subject to change). The course fees are 580€, the cost for the stay in a single room with full board is 896€, 700€ in a double room. The costs include all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinners, coffee breaks, entrance fees and cultural excursions. The total cost is usually fully subsidized by the EU. Please ask us for individual offers. -
Additional information:Description of the services and activities included in the course package (such as accommodation, meals, transport) or available at extra cost.
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Cancellation & changes:
europeanseminars is not liable for costs caused by force majeure. As a course provider, we are not responsible for the financial or other consequences related to travel, accommodation or meals. In the event of being unable to attend, the registered person can represent another person from the same organization or attend another of our courses. There are no additional costs involved. Please let us know in good time.
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Additional information:The options and conditions for change and cancellation, and the policy in case of unforeseen circumstances (force majeure).
Additional information
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Language:English
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Target audience ISCED:Primary education (ISCED 1)Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
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Target audience type:TeacherHead Teacher / PrincipalSchool Psychologist
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Learning time:25 hours or more
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