Yoga and Mindfulness in the Classroom: Strategies and Practices to Enhance Student Learning
As educators, we want to create the best learning environment for our students. The significant increase of SEL programs in schools has brought the conversation of student mental and emotional health to the front of the class. Educators continue to experience first-hand how post-pandemic school has changed - increased class size, decreased student engagement and motivation, and an increase in student educational and social-emotional intervention needs.
This course will provide teachers with research-based practices and strategies that can support any classroom environment. Through the use of secular-based yoga movements, breathing techniques, and mindfulness lessons, students (and their teachers!) will begin to develop techniques, incorporate tools to enhance the learning environment and improve self-regulation. We will explore why it works, how to get started (even if you've never done yoga or mindful training), how to introduce it to your class, and practices that are best for a variety of environments and learners.
This course is appropriate for all grade levels and for teachers of any subject area. This is a hybrid course which will meet for one hour of online, synchronous learning via Zoom, accompanied by 2 hours of asynchronous learning through Schoology.
FORMAT: Synchronous and asynchronous online learning
DATES: Tuesdays, 10/1/24, 10/8/24, 10/15/24, 10/22/24, 10/29/24
TIME: Synchronous online sessions: 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. (additional 2 hours of asynchronous work each week)
FACILITATOR: Tiffany Salisbury
GCRTC CONTACT: Lorena Hurst, GCRTC Teacher Leadership Coach for Elementary Education
FEE: None. Registration is required.
CTLE HOURS: 15
REGISTRATION: https://tinyurl.com/yrdy39v8