Supporting Adolescent Learners

This course is for anyone in a role that supports young adolescents. For example: parents, teachers, youth leaders, guidance officers and counsellors. You can use the hashtag #FLadolescentwellbeing to talk about this course on social media.

• Lifelong learning as a context for understanding young adolescents with an imperative for developing a new learning mindset for 21st century learners
• Developing an understanding of Young Adolescent learners through the domains of social, emotional, intellectual, and physical development
• A focus on the second sensitive period of brain development and the impact of neuroscience for learning, with a particular focus on social and emotional implications and cognitive engagement
• Developing capabilities to enhance social and emotional wellbeing, highlighting elements such as empathy, resilience and self regulation