Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Wellness Endorsement of Students PK-12
Program Highlights & Benefits
Flexible, online format
Complete one course every 8 weeks
Faculty have professional knowledge and experience of the PDE Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Wellness certificate endorsement competencies
Prepares educators to build resiliency in students by facilitating social, emotional, and behavioral wellness
For
Candidates for the Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Wellness Endorsement of Students PK-12 must have earned a Level I or Level II instructional, supervisory, educational specialist, or an administrative certificate. This endorsement program is intended for teachers, school administrators, counselors, and other school personnel who recognize the importance of supporting students who have experienced adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) or trauma.
What You Learn
The Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Wellness Endorsement of Students PK-12 program prepares professional educators who are compassionate and competent to build resiliency in students by facilitating social, emotional, and behavioral wellness in order to address non-academic barriers to learning. The four required courses, which include field experiences, describe the professional knowledge, skills, and competencies that students will master in the program and are grounded in theories of cognitive, social, emotional, and behavioral development and demonstrated research-based practices. Field experiences will provide students with a variety of practical experiences related to teaching and learning within diverse school settings with school mentors and school personnel (principals, deans of students, school psychologists, social workers, school counselor). This program prepares candidates to demonstrate competency in the five following domains:
- Social Emotional Wellness Learning and Youth Development
- Characteristics and Impact of Adverse Childhood Experience, Trauma, and Mental Illness on PK-12 Students
- Behavioral and Mental Health Literacy
- Prevention and Intervention to Support Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Wellness across PK-12 Educational Environments
- Collaboration with Families, Agencies, and the Community
How You Learn
Online Format: This is an online cohort program. Students will be engaged in an active and engaging interactive online environment that includes assignments, materials, discussion threads, assessments and/or group activities done electronically. You will finish one 3-credit course every 8 weeks. Following this schedule, you will complete the program in one year. Embedded in each course will be a number of required field experiences that are required by PDE for certification.
Career Outcomes
Upon completion of this program, students will be eligible for the Social, Emotional, and Behavioral Wellness of Students PK-12 PDE Endorsement. Upon completion of this program, students will:
- Describe and define what social emotional learning is and how it relates to resiliency, including the research linking SEL to positive and negative developmental outcomes.
- Discuss how a multi-tiered system/Positive Behavior Intervention and Supports (PBIS) approach is used to guide the selection and implementation of evidence based SEL programs and practices.
- Demonstrate an understanding of typical child, adolescent, and young adult development and the most common types of mental illness that PK-12 students may experience and the impact of ACEs and trauma.
- Identify and describe the roles of other relevant child-serving systems within communities that can be supportive to addressing matters associated with social, emotional, and behavioral wellness of PK-12 students.
- Plan and implement (when necessary) approaches to de-escalate non-crisis and crisis situations in the instance when the safety of students or others may be in jeopardy that reflect trauma-informed principles.
- Demonstrate an understanding of how to use academic and behavioral progress monitoring data (e.g., individual, classroom, school-wide) to support educational practice.
- Demonstrate authentic collaboration and culturally responsive approaches when communicating with family, school, and community partners regarding student social, emotional, or behavioral needs in simulated or actual contexts.
Degree Requirements
| Course | Title | Hours |
| SPED 535 | Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports | 3 |
| EDUC 578 | Social, Emotional Learning and Collaborative School Based Relationships | 3 |
| EDUC 577 | Trauma Informed Practices | 3 |
| EDUC 589 | Student Practicum Experience in Social Emotional Learning | 3 |
| Total Credit Hours: | 12 |
Please Note:
Program and course requirements are subject to change to comply with university policy.
Students can apply for the endorsement after completing the course work. The application is submitted in the Teacher Information Management System (TIMS) that can be found on the PDE website like other certificate application.
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