Enhancing Wellbeing in the Classroom

€70.00

This course about enhancing wellbeing in the classroom provides teachers with the nature, range and depth of the vocabulary used in relation to wellbeing and how this area is approached both nationally and internationally. Participants on the course are given the opportunity to reflect critically on their professional role in enhancing wellbeing in the classroom. They can discuss, compare and contrast in detail the different approaches to wellbeing as well as the psychological underpinnings and definitions of the area. This course also provides a variety of resources and frameworks to guide personal and professional reflection and discussion on wellbeing and how it can be implemented across the curriculum through picture books. Through guided discussion on the discussion forum, participants can further explore, share and develop their thinking and understanding of wellbeing while informing the school self-evaluation (SSE) process.

Course Structure

The key topics of this course are:
● Introduction to wellbeing — international and national perspectives
● Grief in the classroom — coping with wellbeing issues related to bereavement, separation and divorce
● Bullying in the Classroom — coping with wellbeing issues related to bullying and cyberbullying
● Difficult discussions: using picture books to promote wellbeing and tackle sensitive topics
● Wellbeing across the curriculum

The objectives of this course are to:
● Compare and contrast the nature and perspectives of wellbeing in education both nationally and internationally
● Allow participants to reflect critically on their professional role in terms of how and where wellbeing sits in the curriculum and their own practice.

The course will focus particularly on:
● An introduction to wellbeing and its role in the classroom — a national and international perspective
● Grief in the classroom — bereavement, separation and divorce
● The psychology behind bullying and cyberbullying
● Using picture books to talk about difficult topics
● Wellbeing across the curriculum — lesson plan and resources
● Allowing participants to derive a personal and professional understanding of well-being
● Outlining and describing personal and professional assumptions involved in wellbeing and how this may affect the whole-school approach taken