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Social-Emotional Learning and Trauma-Sensitive Practices in English Language Teaching

2023 Specialist Master Class

In this course, English Language Specialists Janine Darragh and Luis Javier Pentón Herrera provide tools and perspectives for introducing, developing, and implementing sustainable social-emotional learning (SEL) and trauma-sensitive teaching practices in English language learning spaces worldwide, with special consideration for contexts of crisis and teacher well-being. To receive a course certificate, participants develop an action plan or lesson plan that takes into account the supports and constraints identified in their education contexts.

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This is a program of the U.S. Department of State, administered by Georgetown University, Center for Intercultural Education and Development.

All decisions related to participant terms (including candidate review, selection, funding, suspension, revocation, and termination) and all criteria related thereto are made and established by the U.S. Department of State.