Love and care are essential needs for children of all ages. This course will help you learn what the Approach of Love looks like in a classroom, and how you can provide a healthy and loving environment to your students.
Through this course, teachers will understand what Love as an Approach means, why it’s important, and what it can look like in a classroom. Teachers will learn different strategies that will help them embody the Approach of Love themselves, as well as teach it to the students in their classroom.
This course consists of 5 sections:
- Section 1 - Feel: In this section, we will reflect on our own experiences and learn why it’s important to operate with Love at all times.
- Section 2 - Imagine: In this section, we will explore examples through history where Love has led to revolutionary changes in society and understand why it’s important in education.
- Section 3 - Do: In this section, we will go through different structures that will help you embody the Approach of Love.
- Section 4 - Share: In this section, we will look at ways to share what we have learnt about Love as an Approach and spread the learnings to our classroom and beyond.
- Section 5 - Assessment: Here we will be able to reflect on what we have learnt in this course, and identify the concepts we will need to revisit or revise.
Standards
This course meets the following standards:
1. Teaching as Leadership:
I-5 Create a welcoming environment through rational persuasion, role models, and constant reinforcement and marketing to instill values (e.g., respect, tolerance, kindness, collaboration) so that students feel comfortable and supported enough to take the risks of striving for the big goals.
2. CENTA:
- RS 1.1a: Ability to interact with students with warmth and respect in all situations
- VC 4.1 a: Ability to maintain sensitivity in verbal communication
