Empowering Educators for Contemporary Challenges: Mastering SEDA Competencies

Webinar HAND ET Empowering Educators for Contemporary Challenges Mastering socio-emotional competencies and diversity awareness (SEDA) (1)

HAND:ET partners from DCM, AU and MIUN, authors of the HAND: Empowering Teachers Program elaborated how teachers can be supported in the development of socio-emotional competencies, diversity awareness, and other essential skills and competencies as well as key concepts HAND: Empowering Teachers program is based on.

Heidi Berg Nielsen (DCM, AU), Helene Dahlström (MIUN), and Helle Katinka Gøtzsche (DCM, AU), the authors of the HAND: Empowering Teachers Program developed and implemented within the HAND:ET project led us through the essential concepts covered in the HAND: ET Program such as stress management, mindfulness, diversity awareness, emphatic listening etc. They also shared their insights and experiences from the practice and guided participants through a mindfulness practice.

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