Promoting Teacher Social Emotional Competence: A Professional Development Series

摘要

Teaching can be an emotional profession, as teachers are faced with a wide variety of situationsudin any given day and are required to act quickly and flexibly as the situation demands. Teachingudcan be a stressful job with stressors from school administration, state standards, parentaluddemands and student needs. To manage a classroom and deliver effective instruction requiresudsocial-emotional self-management as well pedagogical skills. Designed to help develop andudstrengthen their social emotional competencies, the professional development developed as theudproduct of this thesis project offers a two part professional development, through a PowerPointudpresentation as well as an independent activity for the teachers to engage in between theudprofessional development meetings. There will be ample opportunity for the teachers to engageudin discussions regarding this professional development and to share their own reflections.