WE Virtual Learning Classroom - The power of gratitude

WE Virtual Learning Center is a website that offers resources and programs to support teachers and empower young students to become their strongest selves. There are modules, courses, campaigns, lesson packages and supporting resources, as well as virtual workshops, and a video library. This website's goal is to help teachers stay organized and to lift up their students, while also focusing on students well-being and goals. 

As I was exploring the WE Virtual Learning Center, I came across the WE Teachers Courses which provides a multitude of resources for teachers depending on their focus. For example, there are two resources and courses on the science of power and gratitude, promoting that gratitude is a key ingredient for mental health and well-being. The website shares how teachers can implement gratitude into their personal lives, to be able to implement it into their classrooms. If this is a resource a teacher is interested in, there is a 31 page document to dive deeper into why gratitude is important, how it enhances verbal and written expression, along with a variety of ways to incorporate it in your life and classroom.

Each resource is also provided with a course that shares videos, questions, and quizzes to help you really understand the meaning and course content. I decided to take the course on Say it Now: Why Gratitude is a Key Ingredient for Well-being and Promoting SEL and was introduced to the Say it Now workshop video. After watching the video, they provide seven questions reflecting back on what was discussed.If a question is answered incorrectly, they provide learners the opportunity to try again. Once the question is answered correctly, the course explains why it is correct. After completing the course, you can continue to read the resource page and begin to implement this in your life and classroom!