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Maintaining Resilience in Teaching: Navigating Common Core and More

Graduate-Level Credit / Non-Credit Hours
3 Semester Credits or 45 Clock Hours

Course Description
This course is designed to help K-12 teachers navigate the ever-growing complexities of the education profession while simultaneously helping them to balance their lives and careers. Teachers will learn the tenets of Positive Psychology (Seligman) and related theories and strategies. These, in turn, will provide the foundation for increasing personal and professional resilience, maintaining flexibility, and tending to physical and mental health as a basis to improve classroom experiences for all.

Global Goals of the Course
To deepen and/or apply the content and skills of the teacher’s existing professional knowledge base by meeting the following global goals of this course: 

1. To understand the impact of teacher disposition and well-being as a major contributing factor within the classroom (NBPTS 1, 4;InTASC 1, 3, 7, 9)
2. To develop a personal mission statement and foundation for teaching to improve resiliency and continued growth within the teaching profession (NBPTS 4;InTASC 9)
3. To examine current over-arching trends in education and evaluate how they dove-tail within the field and impact the classroom (NBPTS 1, 2, 3, 4; InTASC 1-9)
4. To learn skills for the ongoing development of resiliency, foundation for classroom leadership, and teacher mission (NBPTS 1,4 ;InTASC 1, 3, 7, 8, 9)
5. To comprehend the significance of personal reflection and communities of practice in the ever-changing field of education (NBPTS 1, 4, 5;InTASC 1, 3, 9, 10)

 

 


Reviews


By Elizabeth Deal
Reviewed 4 years ago
Shelley Fisher’s passion for teaching is contagious!


By Jeanine Buob
Reviewed 4 years ago
Shelly Fisher did a great job teaching this course and keeping the participants motivated.


By Christine Johnson
Reviewed 4 years ago
There seemed to be a lot more papers to submit when comparing this class to previous classes taken through The Connecting Link. I wanted to take 2 classess over the summer, but the amount of work within this single class was lengthy. I only got this one class completed.


By Mary Elizabeth Moody-Laing
Reviewed 4 years ago
She did a great job and gave good feedback!!


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