Diocese of Trenton - Custom Bundle

As a parent or guardian, you may have concerns about challenges your child is currently having in regards to screen time stamina and engagement. As the biggest advocate for your child, this course is designed to help provide you with the current research on screen-time, and learn how to apply practical strategies to help your child overcome screen time based challenges. Join a community of parents and guardians who are also learning more about screen-time usage and share strategies to support learning.

Empathy is an essential piece of academic, social, and emotional wellbeing. Understanding what empathy is and how it so critically impacts our day-to-day interactions is essential in effectively building and overcoming barriers to empathy in the classroom. In this course, participants will explore the definition of empathy and develop an awareness of how empathy impacts students well being and success. Participants will then explore strategies for building empathy in the classroom and develop a plan for effectively leveraging these practices for the social-emotional and academic well-being of their students.

Despite growing up in a world that is heavily and increasingly reliant on technology, our learners need support in order to develop and practice the skills necessary to be successful in their academic and later professional lives. Acquiring and attaining mastery in these skills is not a natural process but one that must be intentionally instilled and cultivated. In this course, we will examine executive function skills and clarify the role that they play in our success across the many facets of our lives. We will then explore the connection between the executive function skills that are integral to thriving with technology. Participants will evaluate a series of strategies for establishing and practicing executive function skills when using technology and assumable a flexible toolkit that can be used to support the learners in their context.