Midwestern University has set a goal to better equip their teacher candidates with the SEL skill sets needed for today's classrooms. Any exemplar models? Looking specifically for PreK-12 classroom teacher prep programs (scope/sequence). We need to build capacity beyond counseling and social worker programs.
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We have an undergraduate certificate in Trauma-Informed Approaches and are thinking about developing a graduate one specifically for teacher candidates.
I can email copies of the syllabi if you'd like. Or you can print them from that site by going into Curriculum and Details and then clicking on the links for each course which will bring up course descriptions and a link to a pdf which contains the Basic Course Information.
Deb:
I applaud you and Wilmington University for taking a lead in this work. I probably should have stated that I'm not in higher ed. I work with higher ed "end users." Using the parable of the river; my work has been focussing on pulling/preventing teachers from drowning in the classroom (prek-12, trauma-informed trainer) and realize someone needed to start meeting local teacher prep programs to fix that hole in the bridge.
In looking over your coursework; I can see a course like SOC 303 can lead students through ACEs/Race/Resilency/etc. Are your undergraduate ed departments working towards this goal as well?
From my discovery; many of the class selections (teacher undergrad prep programs) hasn't changed since I went through an ed program 30 year ago!
I'm trying to find opportunities where these two academia worlds can collaboratively build a more responsive solution to today's classroom realities.
Jim
