Coursera platform offers, in cooperation with Relay Graduate School of Education, a free online course: Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms.
About The Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms Course
Positive psychology meets K-12 pedagogy.
This course explores key ideas of positive psychology and shows how great teachers apply those lessons to maximize student engagement and accomplishment.
Through lectures, discussions, interviews and footage of great educators in action, you’ll learn how to integrate character-based objectives into your own teaching.
| The course is designed for | Beginner level |
| Offered by | Coursera platform in cooperation with Relay Graduate School of Education |
| Course duration | 10 hours |
| Price | Free of charge |
| Certificate upon Completion | Available with the paid version |
| Course language | English (Subtitles: Chinese (Traditional), Arabic, French, Portuguese (European), Serbian, Greek, Italian, Vietnamese, German, Russian, English, Spanish). |
| Already enrolled | 76,211 students. |
| Course Rating | 4,8/5. |
Course Syllabus
What you will learn from this course:
- Unit 1: Your Character Journey
Let’s begin with an exploration of our own strengths of character… we all have them!
- Unit 2: The Science of Character
This module explores the research base that supports the teaching of character.
- Unit 3: Teaching Character in Every Moment
Character education starts with an intentional approach to every human-to-human interaction.
- Unit 4: Macro Structures
Create a plan for teaching character and then work every day to make it happen.
- Unit 5: Talking About Character Growth
No one ever masters something like grit or gratitude; the goal is to integrate those lessons into our daily lives.
How to enroll in Teaching Character and Creating Positive Classrooms course for free
Check the course official website and click on “Enroll For Free”. An enrollment box will pop up for you. Here you have two options, you can either join the paid version of the course by clicking on “Purchase Course ”, or you can view all course lessons for free by clicking on “Full Course, No Certificate”.
After clicking on “Full Course, No Certificate”, you can click on “Continue” to start your course for free!
If you are unable to pay and want a certificate, you can apply to Coursera for Financial aid.
The course official website
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