Happy Teacher Online Workshop

It’s time to become a Happy Teacher! *This course can only be taken once. The Happy Teacher Workshop is a graduate-level course aimed to provide educators with tools and strategies to enhance their professional experience, productivity, and overall well-being.  This course is designed to develop a positive school environment with the use of gratitude, provide a deep understanding of key aspects of financial planning, develop efficient time management skills, and integrate stress management techniques. By the end of this course, educators will design a concrete plan to infuse more gratitude and kindness into their school setting, create a financial plan tailored to their personal needs, design daily structures that maximize efficiency, and promote healthy stress management for themselves and their students. Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to: Describe the role of gratitude in activating the learning areas of the brain Identify key factors for establishing gratitude into daily practice and design an implementation plan Describe the connection between teaching salaries and the teacher shortage. Evaluate the district advancement scale and develop effective budgeting strategies  Explore and analyze effective time management techniques and develop personalized daily structures for the classroom Experiment with different stress management strategies and integrate them into the classroom * Teachers will receive a certificate for 15 hours towards license renewal upon completion. * Happy Teacher classes are approved for license renewal in the states of California, Colorado, Illinois, New York, Montana, and Texas. Optional: Adams State University Graduate-level Credit *The Adams State University transcript link will be given when you complete the workshop (additional $55).