This online course is designed to help early childhood teachers and leaders understand the different elements of social and emotional competence, including social skills, emotion knowledge, and self-regulation. It includes a special focus on supporting neurodivergent children, and takes a close look at understanding children’s challenging behaviours.
Learning objectives:
Interviews with
Case studies of practice
Join the next cohort on August 7
What you’ll learn
PART 1
What is social and emotional competence?
This first part of the course introduces and unpacks the concept of social and emotional competence into its various components, while considering how they are interlinked and the part they play in children’s wider learning across the lifespan.
PART 2
Positive social and emotional climates
Explores how a positive climate contributes to children’s sense of wellbeing, and provides the confidence, safety, and security children need in order to grow further social and emotional competencies, as well as strategies for evaluating and enhancing your setting’s climate.
PART 3
Learning about and managing emotions
Details the emotion knowledge children need to learn in order to be emotionally competent and pedagogies for teaching about emotions, including information on how to support children who experience intense emotions.
PART 4
Social competence
Explores how direct and intentional teaching can scaffold children’s social skills as well as examining peer conflicts and considering how these might be used as a context for learning social skills.
PART 5
Developing self-regulation and executive function
Describes the different components of executive function and their relation to social and emotional competence as well as a range of simple strategies and games for enhancing children’s executive function, some of which are illustrated by teachers in case study early childhood settings.
PART 6
Neurodivergence and social emotional competence
Explores neurodivergent children’s particular strengths and needs in regard to developing social and emotional knowledge and skills and considers specific strategies that may support neurodivergent children’s social and emotional competence.
PART 7
Challenging behaviour and social emotional skills
Focuses on so-called challenging behaviours and offers a set of supports and actions that can be put together to provide individualised and tailored support for the children having most difficulty developing social and emotional competence.
PART 8
Bringing your learning together
The last part of the course integrates learning from different parts of the course to develop a comprehensive programme for children’s social and emotional learning and to plan some next steps following your participation in this course.
PREMIUM SUPPORT PATHWAY: STARTS MONDAY AUGUST 7
Social Emotional Competence course
$110
($126.50 inc GST)
You’ll receive
Enrol a group of teachers and save up to $25pp
Group enrolments enable teachers to share their learning journeys and centres to collectively make changes in their practice based on their learning. Each teacher receives their own log in and can complete the course in their own time, on their own computer or tablet. Prices below exclude GST (local sales tax).
- 1 teacher: NZ$110
- 2-4 teachers: NZ$105 pp
- 5-9 teachers: NZ$95 pp
- 10+ teachers: NZ$85
Please note: discounts only apply to group enrolments made in one transaction, and cannot be applied retrospectively if your group size increases.
* Lifetime access means for as long as the course is hosted on The Education Hub
Who are you enrolling?
Just yourself – Choose ‘Individual’ below
Yourself + others– Choose ‘Group’ below, enter the number of enrolments (1+), and tick ‘Enrol me’
Just other people– Choose ‘Group’ below, enter the number of enrolments (1+), but don’t tick ‘Enrol me’
Please note: 1. Before you enrol, please check you are logged into the website with the email address you wish to use to complete the course. You can check on your Dashboard. 2. When enrolling a group, create a relevant name for the group, eg “CentreName-Social”
SELF-DIRECTED PATHWAY: START IMMEDIATELY
Social Emotional Competence course
$95
($109.25 inc GST)
You’ll receive
Enrol a group of teachers and save up to $30pp
Group enrolments enable teachers to share their learning journeys and centres to collectively make changes in their practice based on their learning. Each teacher receives their own log in and can complete the course in their own time, on their own computer or tablet. Prices below exclude GST (local sales tax).
- 1 teacher: NZ$95
- 2-4 teachers: NZ$85 pp
- 5-9 teachers: NZ$75 pp
- 10+ teachers: NZ$65
Please note: discounts only apply to group enrolments made in one transaction, and cannot be applied retrospectively if your group size increases.
* Lifetime access means for as long as the course is hosted on The Education Hub
Who are you enrolling?
Just yourself – Choose ‘Individual’ below
Yourself + others– Choose ‘Group’ below, enter the number of enrolments (1+), and tick ‘Enrol me’
Just other people– Choose ‘Group’ below, enter the number of enrolments (1+), but don’t tick ‘Enrol me’
Please note: 1. Before you enrol, please check you are logged into the website with the email address you wish to use to complete the course. You can check on your Dashboard. 2. When enrolling a group, create a relevant name for the group, eg “CentreName-Social”
Keeping our courses affordable
The Education Hub wants as many teachers as possible to be able to take our courses and benefit from the high quality professional learning they offer. Therefore, we are committed to keeping course fees as low as possible. It is through the support of our ever-generous supporters that we can produce such rich, multimodal learning opportunities while offering participants significant subsidies.
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Please note, all our courses are best completed on a desktop/laptop computer or tablet. Because of the amount of content, we do not recommend using a phone.
* Group discounts apply to the full price, and can only be applied in one transaction, not retrospectively, or on the addition of more enrolments. ** Our standard terms and conditions are available here
Past participants recommend our courses
“I loved how the course was laid out. It was easy to leave and pick up where I had left off. The site was easy to navigate and I liked the videos that backed up the reading.”
Samantha
ECE teacher“I’ve just started and it’s incredible! Best professional learning course I have participated in in a long time. I’ve just completed Part 2 – so inspiring!”
Helen
Teacher“Thanks for the opportunity. This was without doubt amongst the best professional development I have done in many years.”
