Coping with Changes: Social-Emotional Learning Through Play

Learn how to provide playful and engaging social-emotional learning (SEL) support to children affected by changes in their lives like family issues or the COVID-19 disruption.

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Course curriculum

1. Disclaimer
2. 1.1 Welcome to 'Coping with Changes: Social-Emotional Learning through Play
3. 1.2 About this course
4. 1.3 Meet the Team
5. 1.4 Introduce yourself...
6. 1.5 Mapping our community
1. 2.1 Welcome to week 2: Foundations of Learning through Play
2. 2.2 Childhood play experiences
3. 2.3 Childhood play experiences - Take aways
4. 2.4 Childhood play experiences
5. 2.5 Characteristics of playful experiences
6. 2.6 Skills for holistic development
7. Chain Reaction
8. Tips & tricks
9. Review: Foundations of Learning through Play
10. What have we learned?
1. 3.1 Welcome to week 3: What do we mean by social-emotional Learning through Play
2. 3.2 Reflecting on your own and children's well-being
3. 3.3 What is mental health and psychosocial support?
4. 3.4 What is social-emotional learning?
5. 3.5 The children in your life...
1. 3.6 Understanding adversity, change and resilience
2. 3.7 Promotion or Response?
3. 3.8 Child-friendly mindfulness
4. 3.9 Social support
5. 3.10 Social support mapping
1. 3.11 Identification of distress
2. 3.12 Mapping child-friendly services to make a referral
3. 3.13 Referral and how to access psychosocial supports
1. 3.14 Review: What do we mean by social-emotional Learning through Play
2. 3.15 Reflection
1. 4.1 Welcome to week 4: Coping with change and transition
2. 4.2 Predictability and child development
3. 4.3 Create your own Change Cloud
4. 4.4 Create your own Change Cloud
5. 4.5 How children respond to change
6. 4.6 Listening to children
7. 4.7 Taking different perspectives
8. 4.8 Predictability and development
9. 4.9 Creating routines
1. 4.10 Adult roles in transitions
2. 4.11 Creating a holistic support plan
1. 4.12 Review: Coping with change and transitions
2. 4.13 Reflection
1. 5.1 Welcome to week 5: Caring for yourself
2. 5.2 Keeping ourselves healthy
3. 5.3 Adult wellbeing and the connection to the wellbeing of children
4. 5.4 Feeling stress in your body
5. 5.5 Reflection
6. 5.6 Skills & strategies - part 1
7. 5.7 Progressive muscle relaxation
8. 5.8 Reflection
9. 5.9 Additional exercise: Body scan meditation
10. 5.10 Additional exercise: Deep breathing
11. 5.11 Skills & strategies - part 2
12. 5.12 Developing your self-care plan
1. 5.13 Review: Caring for yourself
2. 5.14 Reflection
1. 6.1 Welcome to Caring for young children
2. 6.2 Share your brain drawing
1. 6.3 Overview of early brain development
2. 6.4 Core components of social-emotional Learning though Play in early childhood
3. 6.5 Early childhood development and adversity/crisis
1. 6.6 Supporting young children in times of stress
2. 6.7 Adult roles in early childhood development
3. 6.8 Reflection
1. 6.9 The five characteristics of Learning through Play
2. 6.10 Overview of PEDAL
3. 6.11 Demo social-emotional learning for early childhood development
4. 6.12 10 tips for social-emotional learning in early childhood development
5. 6.13 Design your own playful social-emotional learning interaction for early childhood
1. 6.14 Review: Caring for young children
2. 6.15 Reflection
3. 6.16 Reflection
1. 7.1 Caring for school-aged children
2. 7.2 Overview of middle childhood
3. 7.3 How crisis affects middle childhood development
4. 7.4 Supporting developmental changes
5. 7.5 Adult roles in middle childhood
1. 7.6 Five characteristics of Learning through Play for middle childhood
2. 7.7 Core components of social-emotional Learning though Play in middle childhood
3. 7.8 Demo social-emotional learning for middle childhood
4. 7.9 Criteria for social-emotional learning in middle childhood
5. 7.10 Design your own social-emotional learning activity for middle childhood
6. 7.11 Design your own social-emotional learning activity for middle childhood
1. 7.12 Review: Caring for school-aged children
2. 7.13 Reflection
1. 8.1 Welcome to Caring for teens and adolescents
2. 8.2 Typical adolescence development
3. 8.3 Overview of adolescent development
4. 8.4 Key developmental tasks during adolescence
5. 8.5 How does crisis affect typical development during adolescence?
1. What are my facilitation strengths?
2. 8.7 Reflection
3. 8.8 How do we facilitate Learning through Play activities with adolescents?
4. 8.9 What guidance is there for facilitating sessions with adolescents?
1. 8.10 Learning through Play for adolescences
2. 8.11 Social-emotional Learning through Play activities for adolescents
3. 8.12 Back to back
4. 8.13 Reflection: Back to back
5. 8.14 Paper airplanes
6. 8.15 Reflection: Paper airplanes
1. 8.16 Core components of social-emotional Learning through Play for adolescents
2. 8.17 Core components of social-emotional Learning through Play for adolescents
3. 8.18 Reflection
1. 9.1 Course review
2. 9.2 The social-emotional learning toolbox
3. 9.3 Reflection
4. 9.4 Thank you & congratulations!

About this course

109 lessons
3 hours of video content

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Apply social emotional learning through Play in practise
Identify how we learn through play
Demonstrate strategies to support a child’s learning through play in relation to social-emotional learning
Explain Mental Health Psychosocial Support and Social Emotional Learning
Demonstrate mitigation strategies
Identify the challenges children may face in transitions back and forth from remote learning/homes to in-person/schools during crisis
Develop routines to create a sense of normalcy through rapid transitions and changes
Apply strategies to collaborate with other adults to create consistency across a child’s social-ecological system
Explain why adult wellbeing is important for children
Demonstrate stress management strategies, including mindfulness, individual and social strategies

Certification

You will receive a certificate of completion for Coping with Changes: Social-Emotional Learning Through Play. You will receive 5 SACE points.

Pricing

This course is part of our CPTD Bundle.

Coping with Changes: Social-Emotional Learning Through Play

Learn how to provide playful and engaging social-emotional learning (SEL) support to children affected by changes in their lives like family issues or the COVID-19 disruption.

Play intro video

Course curriculum

Week 1: Welcome to 'Coping with Changes: Social-Emotional Learning through Play

Week 2: Foundations of Learning through Play

Week 3: What we mean by social-emotional Learning through Play

Adversity/resilience

Identification of distress

What we learned?

Week 4: Coping with change and transition

Adult roles in transitions

What have we learned?

Week 5: Caring for yourself

What have we learned?

Week 6: Caring for young children

Early Childhood Development and Early Social-Emotional Development

Adult Roles in ECD

Learning through Play in ECD

What have we learned?

Week 7: Caring for school-aged children

Learning through Play for middle childhood

What have we learned?

Week 8: Caring for teens and adolescence

Adult Roles in Adolescence

What does Learning through Play look like with adolescents?

What have we learned?

Week 9: Wrap up

About this course

Learning Objectives

Certification

Pricing