Workshop | Hands-On Professional Development Teach SEL Through STEM

Hybrid Hands-On Professional Development Training Programs for Early Childhood Educators Teach SEL Through STEM

For children, STEM pedagogy is an opportunity to develop their social-emotional learning competence (SEL). While learning how cause and effect, oscillation, kinetic energy, and many other phenomena work through play, children deal with self-awareness, collaboration, inclusion, and the idea of community. In this PD training, you learn how children can use STEM in sensory, motor, imaginative, and social-emotional learning. Discover how to use forms, function, force, and motion in young children’s physical and social-emotional development.

Learning Objectives

Direct, Practical Implementation

Through multiple interactive activities, you will learn how to appreciate learning as a physical and emotional act within a “natural” STEM environment you can easily set up in your classroom.

Language, Emotion, and Science

You will learn how to use children’s perceptual systems and embodied cognition as a language to introduce multiple conversations related to experiences in STEM.

Social-Emotional Learning and Physics

Learn how to combine oscillation, kinetic energy, and other physical phenomena with self-awareness, collaboration, and community.

Science, Engineering, Math, and Inclusion

Learn how to set up STEM-based experiences that support every child or student to thrive, ignite a problem-solving culture, and elevate each person’s potential.