EDUU 9868: Teaching Life’s Essentials-Compassion

Course Introduction

Isn’t it true that great teachers are born not made? We say “not at all”. With the guidance of the courses in this series, you can take your teaching to a new level; one that brings the highest degree of satisfaction to yourself and your students. Great teachers are remembered not for the knowledge they impart but for the way they encourage and lift their students’ achievement, not just in a subject, but in the important skills of living a fulfilling life. These skills of happiness, of inspiration, compassion, curiosity and resilience are essential for both the learner and the teacher. This course will bring research to inform along with techniques and activities to imbue your delivery of required curriculum with the essence of greatness-both yours and your students’.

Through website resources and course assignments, teachers will be supported in the development of a compassionate classroom while at the same time making their students aware of the importance of becoming compassionate citizens.

Course Objectives

In this course participants will have an opportunity to:

1.  Read and study given website resources.
2. Recall the influence of compassion in their life.
3. Strive to develop a compassion classroom that will influence student behavior.
4. Develop a lesson plan in which compassion is the theme.
5. Communicate with other class participants about the importance of compassion.

Course Relation to Professional Standards
This course aligns to the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards

TEACHERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANAGING AND MONITORING STUDENT LEARNING.

• Teachers Call on Multiple Methods to Meet Their Instructional Goals
• Teachers Value Student Engagement
• Teachers Engage Students in the Learning Process

TEACHERS ARE MEMBERS OF LEARNING COMMUNITIES

•  Teachers Use Feedback and Research to Improve Their Practice and Positively Impact Student Learning
  This course aligns with National Student Standards

NL-Eng-K12.1 READING FOR PERSPECTIVE

•  Students read a wide range of print and non-print texts to build an understanding of texts, themselves, and of the cultures of the US and the world…

NL-ENG-K12.2 UNDERSTANDING THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE

• Students read a wide range of literature from many periods in many genres to build an understanding of the many dimensions (e.g. philosophical, ethical, aesthetic) of the human experience.