General Description
What are the key elements of a successful student wellbeing program? What best prepares them for the challenges of life beyond school?
This course aims to explore many ideas as to how these kinds of programs could look, covering a variety of wellbeing elements that it is important for young people to be able to understand and apply such as mindfulness, stress reduction, mindset, resilience, character strengths, emotional literacy and working with others as team members and also as leaders and mentors.
The ultimate aim of this course is to assist you to equip the young people you work with with the skills to manage their own wellbeing as they enter adulthood.
Audience
Teachers
Wellbeing Leaders
Assistant Principals
Heads of House
Year Level Co-ordinators
Pastoral Care Teachers and Leaders
Teaching Standards
1.1.2 Proficient Level - Know students and how they learn - Physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics of students: Use teaching strategies based on knowledge of students’ physical, social and intellectual development and characteristics to improve student learning,
1.2.2 Proficient Level - Know students and how they learn - Understand how students learn: Structure teaching programs using research and collegial advice about how students learn,
4.1.2 Proficient Level - Create and maintain supportive and safe learning environments - Support student participation: Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities