Resilience & Wellness for Educators

Course Number:
ECE 222
Transcript Title:
Resilience & Wellness for Educators
Created:
Aug 09, 2022
Updated:
Jul 11, 2023
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Hours:
30
Lecture / Lab Hours:
0
Lab Hours:
0
Satisfies Cultural Literacy requirement:
No
Satisfies General Education requirement:
No
Grading Options
A-F, P/NP, Audit
Default Grading Options
A-F
Repeats available for credit:
0
Prerequisites

Placement into IRW 115 or WR 115

Course Description

Supports educators’ ability to positively adapt in the face of adverse circumstances by teaching positive skills, strategies, and routines that enable them to live happy, fulfilling, and successful lives while enhancing their love of the profession. Covers the identification, justification, and application of resilience and wellness practices necessary to become an effective educator of young children. Prerequisites: placement into IRW 115 or WR 115. Audit available.

Course Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Describe critical practices for becoming a resilient, effective educator.
  2. Explain how managing their own resilience, self-efficacy, mental health, and wellness is critical to the effectiveness of their work.
  3. Examine how wellness and resilience practices can positively support children and transform classroom culture.
  4. Advocate for, and model wellness and resilience practices for children and educators.

Suggested Outcome Assessment Strategies

Assessments may include journal reflections, self-assessments, projects, research papers, quizzes, tests, and portfolio artifacts.

Course Activities and Design

The determination of teaching strategies used in the delivery of outcomes is generally left to the discretion of the instructor. Here are some strategies that you might consider when designing your course: lecture, small group/forum discussion, flipped classroom, dyads, oral presentation, role play, simulation scenarios, group projects, service learning projects, hands-on lab, peer review/workshops, cooperative learning (jigsaw, fishbowl), inquiry based instruction, differentiated instruction (learning centers), graphic organizers, etc.

Department Required Activities

This course should result in a minimum of one portfolio artifact for NAEYC Standard #6 – Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator.

Course Content

Outcome #1: Describe critical practices for becoming a resilient, effective educator
  • Define stress, happiness, values, wellness, mindfulness, and resilience
  • Define the six dimensions of self
    • Spiritual dimension
    • Emotional aspect
    • Physical self
    • Social dimension
    • Intellectual aspect
    • Occupational self
  • Describe wellness and resilience practices
    • Mindfulness
    • Managing negative emotions and cultivating positive emotions and thoughts
    • Clarifying and committing to personal values
    • Choosing your attention
    • Connecting with others in meaningful ways
    • Practicing gratitude
    • Asking for help
    • Establishing a healthy body with exercise, diet, and sleep
    • Engaging in Therapeutic Lifestyle Choices (TLCs)
Outcome #2: Explain how managing their own resilience, self-efficacy, mental health, and wellness is critical to the effectiveness of their work
  • Explain the benefits
    • Reduced stress and burnout
    • Improved health (including mental health)
    • Greater efficacy in job duties
    • Ability to engage effectively and empathetically with children, families, and colleagues
    • Increased capability of creating and maintaining nurturing, supportive, and effective learning environments
    • More balanced and fulfilling life
  • Describe why practicing resilience skills is critical to develop the fluency necessary to use them when they are needed the most
Outcome #3: Examine how wellness and resilience practices can positively support children and transform classroom culture
  • Attention and focus
  • Cognitive development
  • Empathy and perspective taking
  • Social skills
  • Emotional regulation
  • Reduced anxiety and stress
  • Reduced behavior problems, aggression, and depression
  • Reduced post-traumatic symptoms
  • Increased family engagement
Outcome #4: Advocate for, and model wellness and resilience practices for children and educators
  • Examine their six dimensions of self
  • Identify areas for personal improvement
  • Develop a wellness and resilience plan to serve as a roadmap for their future work as an educator
  • Apply a variety of wellness and resilience practices in different aspects of their life

Department Notes

NAEYC Professional Standards & Competencies for Early Childhood Educators:

#6 – Professionalism as an Early Childhood Educator

Oregon Registry Core Knowledge Categories:

HSN - Health, Safety & Nutrition (15 hours - pending)

PPLD - Personal, Professional, & Leadership Development (15 hours - pending)