Course | Social-Emotional Learning Through Play
Price
The course listed is free of cost. Other pricing options are available for this course:
Unlimited Annual USD 119.99 billed annually
Unlimited Monthly USD 24.99/month
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Facilitators
1. Ole Kjær Thomasen: Programme Specialist at the LEGO Foundation
2. Paul St John Frisoli
3. Mette Hauch: Facilitation Innovation Specialist at LegoFoundation
Description
Duration: 9 weeks
Weekly study: 2 hours
Learn how to provide playful and engaging social emotional learning (SEL) support to children affected by COVID-19 disruption.
Discover Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS) and SEL Strategies
COVID-19 means children around the world must adjust to school closure, social distancing, school reopening (but looking different), and the probability of more school closures in future.
These changes will impact children’s academic outcomes as well as challenge their mental health and socio-emotional wellbeing, which forms the basis of their ability to learn.
On this course, you’ll explore the practical and emotional challenges facing children and discover learning through play and stress management strategies that can help.
You’ll also consider the potential long term effects of crises on a child’s social, emotional, and cognitive development.
What Topics Will You Cover?
- Foundations of Learning Through Play
- Importance of MHPSS/SEL in Crisis
- Adult Wellbeing
- Age Sensitive SEL Knowledge and Activities
- Coping With Changes and Transitions
What Will You Achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Apply social emotional learning through Play in practise
- Identify how we learn through play
- Demonstrate strategies to support a child’s learning through play in relation to social-emotional learning
- Explain Mental Health Psychosocial Support and Social Emotional Learning
- Demonstrate mitigation strategies
- Identify the challenges children may face in transitions back and forth from remote learning/homes to in-person/schools during crisis
- Develop routines to create a sense of normalcy through rapid transitions and changes
- Apply strategies to collaborate with other adults to create consistency across a child’s social-ecological system
- Explain why adult wellbeing is important for children
- Demonstrate stress management strategies, including mindfulness, individual and social strategies
- Explore the different phases of brain development and the potential effects of crisis on their social, emotional, and cognitive development
- Apply psychosocial support for children in early childhood
- Design their own age-sensitive activities to support children in crisis
Who is the Course for?
This course is primarily designed for primary caregivers and teachers of young people. The course will also be of interest to culture and social workers, artists, and humanitarian workers.
Who is This Accredited By?
The CPD Certification Service: The CPD Certification Service was established in 1996 and is the leading independent CPD accreditation institution operating across industry sectors to complement the CPD policies of professional and academic bodies.
Who Developed the Course?
The LEGO Foundation
The LEGO Foundation aims to build a future in which learning through play empowers children to become creative, engaged, lifelong learners. Read about our different programmes, projects we support, our research agenda and more in this section.
Course | Social-Emotional Learning Through Play
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