Missouri NEA and NEA are teaming up to offer several summer learning opportunities for new and experienced educators and Aspiring Educators.
Choose from one-hour sessions or programs that run for 4 to 6 weeks. Presented by experienced educators, these sessions are all free for Missouri NEA members. Not a member? Join now at www.mnea.org/JOIN .
Intro to Micro-Credentials for Educators
Tues., June 8 | 7-8 p.m.
Micro-credentials empower educators to take charge of their own professional development. Choose a skill developed over the course of your career or a new skill you want to learn. The work is personalized to you and your students. Some micro-credentials can be completed over the summer without student contact. Optional graduate credit available for achieving any of 175 micro-credentials. Experienced MC facilitators lead this discussion and answer your questions.
Professional Learning Community to earn Micro-Credential
Six weeks, Tuesday evenings, beginning June 22
Choose Trauma-informed Pedagogy OR Cultivating Socially Just Environments
Receive one hour of graduate credit for $80 after achieving a micro-credential. Read complete details HERE
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy for Learning
Mon., June 21 | 4-5 p.m.
Students faced a perfect storm of traumatic events including a nationwide pandemic, economic instability, racial unrest over police killings, months of anxiety and isolation caused by school and community shutdowns, family illness, bullying, anxiety, and more. Educators will engage in conversation about the social and emotional impacts of trauma on our students and their learning, identify the signs of trauma, and how to address the underlying needs of our students.
Understanding Students and Trauma
Mon., June 28 | 4-5 p.m.
This session investigates the impact that trauma has on students in our classrooms. The presenter will analyze different forms of trauma and interventions to help mitigate the impacts of this trauma on learning. The session will also prepare educators on how to develop and sustain a trauma-sensitive classroom that is compassionate and nurturing for all students.
Register at Understanding Students and Trauma
NEA Social-Emotional Learning Blended Courses
June 28-Aug. 9
15 clock-hour facilitated blended courses. Choose from: Self-Awareness; Relationship Skills; Social-Awareness; Self-Management; or Responsible Decision-Making.
Click here for complete details and to register by June 25.
Teaching for Black Lives Matter
Tuesdays in July | 7 p.m.
Read, discuss and apply information in four articles from Rethinking Schools. Like a mini-book study, but no book to buy and much less reading. Register by July 4 to get emailed the first article to read before July 6. The other articles will be emailed to you each week. The four articles are:
- Black Students’ Lives Matter: Building the school-to-justice pipeline - Please read this article before the first session on July 6
- Black is Beautiful - July 13
- How One Elementary School Sparked a Citywide Movement to Make Black Students’ Lives Matter - July 20
- Black Like Me - July 27
Register one time for this recurring meeting at Teaching for Black Lives Matter
Connection Before Curriculum: Teaching in a Post Pandemic World
Mon., Aug. 2 | 2-3 p.m.
Explore research-based programs that teachers can use themselves or with their students to set the tone of the classroom. The idea will roughly follow Maslow's idea that we need to all feel safe to be in the proper mindset to teach and learn.
Register at Connection Before Curriculum
Compassion Fatigue
Tues., Aug. 3 | 2-3:30 p.m.
Compassion fatigue is real among educators, but it can be prevented. Learn the differences between burnout, vicarious trauma, caregiver stress, and compassion fatigue. This seminar views wellness as an ethical mandate for those in the helping professions and provides techniques for maintaining one's mental health. Presented by Lara Pennington, a community mental health educator for Mental Health America of Eastern Missouri. Pennington is an adjunct instructor at Saint Louis University.
- Participants will be able to identify signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue
- Participants will be able to identify the different stages of compassion fatigue
- Participants will learn compassion fatigue management and prevention strategies
Register at Compassion Fatigue Aug. 3, 2 p.m.
Understanding Students and Anger
Thurs., Aug. 5 | 2-3 p.m.
Discover how to better serve students in a more positive way, de-escalate anger, and foster a more constructive relationship with the student.
Register at Understanding Students and Anger