PA287: Teacher Social and Emotional Learning and Well-Being in the Classroom

Thursday, February 15, 2024
4:30 PM–5:20 PM CST

  • PMD: 2,4
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. identify myths and misconceptions associated with the importance of teacher social and emotional learning and particular challenges that EBD teachers face;
  2. understand existing models of teacher well-being and learn a new empirically supported framework to reconceptualize teacher well-being; and
  3. explore the newly developed model of teacher well-being characterized by three core components (Connection, Control, and Capacity) and recommendations for self-preservation and system change within each component of well-being.

Description

Teacher well-being is invaluable to school success. A newly proposed model calls for both teacher self-preservation and systems change according to three primary domains of well-being: connection, control, and capacity.

Presenter(s)

Heather M. Lacey, PhD, Rush University Medical Center
Erica O. Lee, The University of Alabama
Sarah Van Valkenburg, Rush University Medical Center
Brenda J. Huber, Doc B, PLLC

Contributor(s)

Greg Benner

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