Curriculum

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Curriculum

• Using MindMatters activities and themes to
  achieve curriculum outcomes

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Key messages

• links to curriculum frameworks
• MindMatters themes apply to every subject
• both what and how you teach
• build on individual strengths
• high but achievable expectations
• active learning

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Teacher influence

• Teachers who convey the message that this work
  is important, I know you can do it, I wont give
  up on you and who play to the strengths of each
  child exert a powerful motivating influence,
  especially on students who receive the opposite
  message from their families and communities
• Fostering Resiliency in Kids Bonnie Benard 1993

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Assessment

• Schools that encourage young people do not rely
  on standardised tests they use multiple
  approaches, especially authentic assessments,
  that promote self-reflection and validate the
  different types of intelligences, strengths and
  learning styles.
• Fostering Resiliency in Kids Bonnie Benard 1993

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Teaching for positive mental health Activity

• How do you already teach for positive mental
  health at your school?
• or
• How do you already encourage local schools and
  teachers to teach for mental health?

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Teaching for wellbeing

• Purpose
• meaningful work
• positive ethos surrounding effort, achievement
  and service
• Power
• voice, agency and responsibility
• Participation
• ongoing opportunities for interaction
• inclusive, respectful, friendly relationships
• Protection
• from racist and sexist harassment, stigma,
  bullying, exclusion
• by positive classroom/staffroom climate

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Promoting connectednessthrough teaching and
learning

• make learning relevant and real life
• use group work
• involve and value your community
• use learning logs to reflect on learning
• give options for presenting learning
• use whole school approach
• Enhancing Resilience 1

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National Goals for Schooling 1

• 1. Schooling should develop fully the talents and
  capacities of all students.
•  1.2 qualities of self-confidence, optimism, high
  self-esteem, and a commitment to personal
  excellence as a basis for their potential life
  roles as family, community and workforce members
•  1.8 knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to
  establish and maintain a healthy lifestyle, and
  for the creative and satisfying use of leisure
  time.

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National Goals for Schooling 2

• 3. Schooling should be socially just so that
• 3.1 students' outcomes from schooling are free
  from the effects of negative forms of
  discrimination based on sex, language, culture
  and ethnicity, religion or disability and of
  differences arising from students' socio-economic
  background or geographic location.

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Health and Physical Education

• Brainstorm community services available for a
  variety of adolescent issues. In small groups,
  contact the service and invite a guest speaker.
• Use social skills Y or T-charts as observation
  proformas for students waiting a turn.
• What things do students do for their own mental
  health?
• How can young people positively influence others
  to take steps to promote their mental health?

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English

• Select texts to which students relate.
• Use reading groups where students share reading a
  text.
• In groups investigate the issue of curfews for
  teenagers. Role play negotiating with a care
  giver to stay out later.

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The Arts

• Make a short video to promote aspects of positive
  mental health around the school and community
• screen it publicly
• assess by how well they worked as a group and/or
  the effectiveness of the message with the audience

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Studies Of Society and Environment

• How are you affected by the Democratic process?
• Investigate rules that affect young people e.g.
  discrimination over the last 20 years.
• What do you/people do to make their work
  satisfying?
• Encourage students to take action after
  research.

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Mathematics

• Use circles activity in learning logs to revise
  the concept of reflection.
• Construct and undertake surveys about
• school/community attitudes to mental health and
  well being
• activities which promote mental health and well
  being
• analyse and publish results using Excel

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Science

• Explore the properties of materials for their
  relaxation or calming effects when visualised or
  touched.
• What are physical and chemical changes that
  happen when you
• eat?
• are afraid?
• Allow students to design their own safe
  experiments.

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Languages Other Than English

• Write a fun letter of invitation to caregivers
  for the next school function. Translate the
  letter into the target language as well as the
  one your caregiver would most respond to.
• Role play politely but firmly returning a
  scratched CD or flat soft drink to a shop.

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Technology

• Design your perfect classroom
• encourage belonging
• provide for relaxation areas
• provide for individual tastes and needs
• characteristics of materials used.

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Teaching and learning ideasActivity

• In pairs, select one of the following tasks.
• Brainstorm an example of teaching, either from a
  learning area familiar to you, or to one of your
  most resistant teachers
• for mental health, resilience or connectedness
• about mental health.
• Match some activities from the MindMatters
  booklets to your states/sectors curriculum
  outcomes.

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Achieving outcomes with MindMatters