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Self-Care: Healthy Strategies for Sustaining Excellence

Self-Care: Healthy Strategies for Sustaining Excellence

Course Description

This course provides educators with strategies on how to take care of oneself in order to be their best selves for their students and to avoid teacher burnout.  These strategies help educators take care of themselves within multiple aspects of their lives including healthier habits for bringing work home.  By forcing teachers to make time for themselves, this course helps teachers stay invigorated about teaching and continue their love for teaching, which then has a positive effect on their own students.

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Course Numbers

  • Adams State: ED 589
  • UMass Global: EDCU 9892

 

Course Learning Objectives

Students will be able to:

  • Students will learn strategies on how to take better care of themselves including strategies on how to more efficiently work from home to stay energized and excited about teaching.
  • Students will be able to take better care of themselves within multiple aspects of their lives including health, love, competence, gratitude and taking work home in order to avoid burnout and to ultimately take better care of their students.
  • Students will complete the “Self-Care Challenge” to enforce allocating time for themselves and their overall well-being.
  • Students will develop skills to reflect on & improve their own teaching practices.

 

Relevancy to Practice: This course provides educators with the following relevant information to help improve their practice:

  • Strategies for improving your self-care in and out of the classroom.
  • Making self-care a habit in order to improve your well-being, avoid teacher burnout, and be your best self for your students.
  • Understanding the importance of self-care in your daily life inside and outside the classroom for you and your students.
  • Focusing on self-care routines to reignite a love of teaching and positively impact students in the classroom.
  • Applying different areas of self-care into your daily life in and out of the classroom.
  • Analyzing and reflecting on the “Self-Care Challenge” to make the appropriate life changes, establish healthy habits and improve happiness.
  • Implementing aspects of health, love, competence and gratitude within your daily life to improve your overall well-being.

Course Format 

This is an online course. Please use course materials emailed to you upon your original registration.

Self-Care Syllabus

Click below for a preview syllabus for this course. This syllabus applies to students receiving credits from Adams State University or UMass Global or those taking the course for Continuing Education (no credits).

No-Risk Guarantee: 

You can cancel a course registration within 30-days and receive a 100% refund, no questions asked.

Registration Now Open: Register now and receive your course materials within 24 hours.  Course materials are due within 6 months of registering for the course.

Price:

Starting at $189.00

Credits:

3

Graduate Credits

*Pricing may not include University Fees. Select option to include fees.

University Fee

Course fee may or may not include the university’s registration fee depending on the university partner. University fees are not included in the registration fee for Adam’s State University and University of Massachusetts Global. 

Those additional fees are:
University of Massachusetts Global: $70/credit
Adam’s State University: $55/credit  

Instructions for how to register with your selected University Partner and pay additional fees will be provided after registering with Credits for Teachers.

University fees for Colorado State University Pueblo are included in the course fees. 

Please note that we cannot grant refunds for students who have already turned in work for a course, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Refunds Policy

Students are able to request a full refund of any Credits for Teachers course within 30 days of registration.  In order to do so, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name and the course you registered for and we will complete the refund.

Exchange Policy

Students are able to exchange one course for another within 30 days of registration as long as the course price is the same and the student does not change the university Partner.  In order to exchange a course, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, course you have registered for and the course you would like to switch to.

Please note that we cannot exchange a course once for students who have already submitted their course for grading, even if it is within the 30-day window.

Transfer Policy

Students that would like to transfer their course from one university partner to another may have the opportunity to do so within the first 30 days of registering for a course.  In order to transfer your course to a different University Partner, please fill out the “Contact Us” form including your full name, the course you are currently registered for and the new University Partner you’d like to switch to.