Nurturing Learners and Learning (classroom and Asynchronous E-Learning)

Through this course participants will:

Part 1

• Gain insight into the science of positive psychology.
• Develop an understanding of wellbeing from the perspective of positive education and positive psychology.
• Explore key concepts and skills which have a significant impact on personal well-being.
• Be able to apply the ideas to enhance learner well-being.
• Develop an understanding of mindset orientations and implications on learning.
• Recognize the feedback plays an important role in developing mindsets.
• Be able to promote complete immersion in activities through understanding the nature of engagement, the pathways to it and the function it has in individual wellbeing.
• Foster social and emotional skills in order to create and promote strong and nourishing relationships.

Part 2

• Develop an understanding of wellbeing from the perspective of positive psychology and positive education.
• Be able to apply the ideas to enhance learner well-being in their home, school or organisational context as well as in their personal lives.
• Develop an understanding of the VIA classification of strengths.
• Be able to identify their signature strengths and the signature strengths of others.
• To learn to use their signature strengths more fully in their personal and professional lives.
• To acquire and demonstrate a mindful disposition through self-regulation of attention and focus on present experiences.

Part 3

• Describe and relate the concept of motivation to their context of teaching and learning.
• Develop a systemic perspective and approach in understanding the issues and factors influencing student motivation and engagement in learning.
• Develop an understanding of motivational theories in order to promote learning and achievement.
• Translate and apply the motivational theories to enhance learner motivation in their teaching/learning contexts.

What You'll Learn

Part 1

• Understanding positive psychology and positive education.
• Positive Accomplishment: Developing Individual Potential.
• Positive Engagement: Promoting Flow.
• Positive Relationships: Increasing Social and Emotional Skills

Part 2

• Understanding positive psychology and positive education.
• Harnessing character strengths.
• Developing mindfulness.
• Developing Positive Emotions.

Part 3

• Definition of motivation.
• Behaviourist approach.
• Humanistic approach.
• Cognitive & socio cultural approaches.