Optional 1: Mindfulness for Educators (2 ECTS)
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and implement mindfulness and the correlated skills in everyday life
- Develop a toolbox of internal skills to respond to situations with more creativity, openness and calm when working with children with diverse needs
- Intentionally shift attention and focus their minds for prolonged periods of time during interventions with children with diverse needs
- Have a more flexible approach to one’s own thoughts, resulting in greater flexibility of mind during interventions with children with diverse needs
- Take a step back from challenging situations in order to see the larger picture during interventions with children with diverse needs
- Be familiar with a range of mindfulness practices for daily use to minimise stress in the classroom
- Differentiate between nurturing and depleting activities and how to balance them within the classroom or with particular students
- Increase their self-soothing skills and develop a friendlier attitude towards one’s own personal experience and the students in the classroom
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures/online
Mode of Assessment:
Assignment
Total Contact Hours:
12
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
28
Assessment Hours:
10
Optional 2: Coaching and Mentoring Students towards Inclusion and Success (2 ECTS)
Learning Outcomes:
- Describe and explain the principles of coaching and mentoring
- Assess one’s skills as a coach/mentor and educator and identify personal development needs and goals.
- Demonstrate the use of the various models of coaching in support of your own development and the development of students with diverse needs.
- Use and work with the key coaching skills or models to enhance the educator’s repertoire.
- Recognise and use the opportunities for the use of coaching and mentoring in the classroom.
- Describe and explain the role and responsibilities of the workplace coach and mentor.
- Explain how coaching and mentoring can impact the classroom and the school.
- Provide evidence of one’s own development as a coach and mentor and their use in helping inclusion in the classroom.
Mode of Teaching:
Lectures/online
Mode of Assessment:
Assignment
Total Contact Hours:
12
Supervised Placement and Practice Hours:
0
Self-Study Hours:
28
Assessment Hours:
10