Diversity Awareness in Education: A New Perspective for a Changing World
Being An Ally: Confronting Homophobia in the Classroom
Open to educators and business professionals from all levels: Accredited courses that are offered for graduate, CEU and Act 48 credit toward professional and personal growth. Each of the 3-credit courses listed below is experiential, non-confrontational, fun and will allow you to leave with a greater knowledge that you will find to be relevant and useful for both your professional and personal life. These courses include:
Diversity Awareness in Communication: Healthy Dialogue & Conflict Resolution
Course Description
This course is entitled "Healthy Conflict Resolution: Communication With Diverse Populations" when scheduled at The Learning Institute at St. Joseph's University
The fear of conflict and an inability to initiate healthy dialogue are frequently the reason why diversity initiatives fail in schools. This course is designed to introduce educators to the concepts of initiating healthy dialogue and utilizing conflict resolution strategies as they directly relate to the broad topic of diversity. Subsequently, participants will complete this course confidently equipped with skills and strategies to make the classroom and their personal lives an environment eager for peaceful and productive outcomes.Participants will
Understand conflict as being both positive and negative.
Complete a personal assessment and participate in self-assessing your own individual styles, sources and responses to conflict.
Understand the importance of active listening in conflict resolution and in educational practice.
Learn the process of using varied strategies in resolving conflict.
Develop an action plan for use in each participant’s educational discipline.
What folks say about “Diversity Awareness in Communication: Healthy Dialogue & Conflict Resolution"
Professional Value
- “Extremely useful, applicable material.”
- “Practical, entertaining and informative.”
- “Great activities that will be very useful in my classroom. This course will allow me to bring so much more to my students than just the subject matter that I teach. I can now present it in a much more enjoyable manner just by how I communicate with them.”
Personal Value
- “Wow! I had no idea that I would learn so much to help me improve upon my personal relationships too"
- By looking at the origins of our own methods of communicating and learning to deal with conflict I feel so better equipped to resolve conflicts personally and professionally.”
- “I am leaving this course with such positive energy to take with me back to my classroom and into my home.”
Workshop Environment
- “This course was interesting at all times!”
- “I know that I really enjoyed this class because I never doodled in my notebook once!”
- Relaxing, fun and never a dull moment. I actually enjoyed getting up in the morning to come to this class each day!”
