Hereora Cluster Teacher Only Day
25/01/18
Lucy Hone
Well-Being & Mental Health:
Well-being definition - 'feeling good and functioning well'
Increased well-being;
- Increased ability to cope with stress
- Lower incidence of cancer
- Faster recovery from surgery
- Greater immunity to colds and flues
- More resistance to trauma
- Greater job satisfaction
- Increased productivity
- Higher levels of optimism
- Greater levels of self-control
More engaged students
What determines our happiness?
Genes 50%, Actions and Thoughts 40%, External Circumstances 10%
Positive Education:
The bringing together the science of well being with best practice teaching to support individuals, schools & whanau to flourish.
Pastoral Care; reactionary, targeted, deficit-based
Positive Education; preventative, universal (whole school community), strengths based
Adler and Seligman, 2016 - Teaching Well-Being increases Academic Performance - perseverance, engagement and personal relationships
Goal Setting
Set a goal and make a plan
Positive Emotions - engagement, relationships, meaning and purpose, achievements
Check in as an individual, class, school
How can we promote well-being in school communities?
Always start with the staff (and include ALL staff)
LEARN IT ⇒ LIVE IT ⇒ TEACH IT ⇒ EMBED IT
Schools represent the only way to achieve universal well-being promotion
24 Character Strengths
To identify your personal strengths take this scientific questionnaire
Improved school performance (Quinlan, 2014)
⇝ engaged learning, increased happiness
⇝ enhanced class climate
Greater odds of having higher well-being (Hone, 2015)
Martin Seligman:
Our strengths can change, we can work on them (not traits)
Character = a set of strengths that contribute to well-being (universally valued, across cultures)
Character = associated with positive outcomes regardless of socio-demographics.
When you know and act on your character strengths, they give you PERMA.
The VIA provides a framework & collective language to discuss
How can we improve PERMA in our classes?
Regular measuring so you are aware of it and work out ways to improve it.
Strengths - activity ⇒ character (what are the things we need to be good at to do the activities
Strengths are .... things we do well, often and with energy
Resources:
SCHOOL BASED MENTAL HEATH TEAM
Providing resources to help the school to provide for the students. resources, workshops
Issues to Resources (where to find support in different areas)
Have done social skills groups with students
Have run transition programmes
Sparklers (allright.org.nz) - has parent and teacher guides
Whanau Effect - promotes connections with whanau
Hikitia te ha (Maori Tai Chi)
Learned Optimism
Sharon Bennett
We need to practise being optimistic
Learned helplessness
To think is to learn
informing vs transforming
Can I control it ?
Yes - then sort it out
No - Let it be
Only 10% of happiness is based on external influences, 90% from inside
Our society focus on fixing the negative
Appreciative Inquiry - Asset based
a pholosphy
a way of looking at the work
a strength based framework
methodology
appraoch