Course | Address Bullying & Aggression for SEL

Facilitator

Connie Enns-Rempel

Educators are among the most important and influential members of our society. Along with families and religious communities, our teachers, administrators, coaches, and counselors have a critical impact on the shaping of children and youth. In her years as a school counselor, she has been deeply impressed that as teachers work to meet the academic and educational needs of their students, they also feel increasing demands to meet students’ social, cultural, emotional, and behavioral needs as well. Her courses are designed to assist educators in addressing these challenging concerns by providing both helpful and relevant theoretical information as well as very practical, hands-on resources.

In the Address Bullying & Aggression for SEL course, you will enhance your awareness of and response to victims of violence and aggression in school. You’ll also expand your understanding of the victimizers and the factors that lead some students to respond to life challenges, conflicts, and difficulties with unwarranted aggression and bullying behavior.

What is the Bullying and Aggression Course?

The Bullying & Aggression course explores various prevention and intervention techniques within the classroom, campus, and larger school community.

The course is based on the principles of Social Emotional Learning. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning defines Social and Emotional Learning as the “process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and share empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.”

The Bullying & Aggression course meets the requirements of national standards related to the school environment, developmental instruction, classroom management, family support, and guidance and advisement to students.

What Will You Learn?

The course framework encompasses five core competencies:
Self-awareness
Self-management
Social awareness
Relationship skills
Decision-making
Participants engage with each of these areas, covering the human concerns of self-regulation, frustration tolerance, aggression, passivity, and responses to life's challenges and difficulties.

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:
Demonstrate the ability to identify and respond to students who are victims of violence and aggression at school or in the home
Identify and formulate a response to students who react with undo aggression and violence to conflict and difficulties
Demonstrate and describe their knowledge of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect, and how these stressors relate to developmental, social, and academic functioning.
Formulate strategies for developing prevention, intervention, and support in the classroom, playground, and community.
Identify and compare school and community resources, professionals, and agencies.

What Are the Assignments and Projects?

Topics, assignments, and activities include:
Course introduction
Defining your context and experience
Reading and responses to the introductory article on bullying and SEL
Written responses to textbook chapters 1-9
Annotated bibliography
Student intervention project
Course wrap-up