Description:

Research supports that the classroom teacher is the single most significant contributor to student achievement; yet 85% of teachers report work-life imbalance affecting their ability to teach. This course provides an opportunity for educators to learn about and apply key concepts related to well-being in order to support and enhance their self-care journey as they continue to support their students to learn, achieve, and grow.

Learning Goals:

• Participants will deepen their self-knowledge and understanding as it relates to their self-care.

• Participants will engage with content around the body's stress response and its implications, key components of well-being, and the six levels of self-care.

• Participants will relate the course content to their classroom or education environment.

• Participants will explore, plan, practice, and implement self-care strategies.

Timeline:

Foundations of Well-Being is a self-paced course designed to provide participants with meaningful work that can assist in promoting more effective teaching practices. To meet the requirements of CEU/Graduate Credit, the readings, activities and assignments are designed to total 15 hours.

Course Text:

All reading material is provided in .PDF format. If you are interested in purchasing any of the textbooks used, click on the Bibliography tab. Please do not share out the copies of the excerpts from the books to respect copyrights. Thank you.

Grading Scale:

A = 90-100%

B = 80-89%

C = 70-79%

D = 60-69%

F = below 60%

Assignments & point allocation

Assignment and activities are graded at 100 total possible points. The breakdown is below.

• Intro Flipgrid video - 4 points

• Padlet Posts - 20 possible points

  • one per unit; 4 total

  • 5 points each

• Flipgrid Assignments - 40 possible points

  • one per unit; 4 total

  • 10 points each

• Final Assignment - 36 possible points

  • I encourage you to work on it throughout the course

Course Navigation:

Each unit of the course is linked below. Activities and assignments are linked beneath each unit. You can also access units by clicking in their headers listed in the upper right corner of this Home page.

• Course Orientation and Introductions

• Unit 1: Let’s chat: What gets in the way of well-being?

• Unit 2: Let's explore: Who are you and why does it matter?

• Unit 3: Let’s discuss: What exactly facilitates well-being?

• Unit 4: Let’s create: What does your well-being look like?

• Rubrics

• Bibliography

Course Credit:

Participants can elect to take the course in two ways:

• 15 CEU Credits (certificate received via e-mail upon successful completion)

• 1 Graduate Credit through the University of Sioux Falls (participant is responsible for registering & paying the $40 fee directly through USF)

• Please contact the Graduate Credit Coordinator, Brenda Luedtke, for more information. Her email is bluedtke@tie.net