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inspiring MY BEST POSSIBLE SELF The first choice we all have in life is to choose to choose. Understanding and accepting that when we make choices which challenge many unhealthy rituals that have become our daily habits at school, we then will have a multitude of possibilities and opportunities to explore which will inspire our best possible selves to shine through.
Choosing to live a life full of:
Choosing to use our strengths to:
mpathy to show that other people matter in our e thoughts, words and actions
do good to feel good and feel good to do good
self-forgiveness and self-kindness to love the life we have
t each with passion and purpose to see both our students and ourselves personally shine
rit to challenge our status quo to enjoy a healthy state of g wellbeing.
ease engaging in rituals which don’t make a positive c difference to anyone. Acknowledgement: Tal Ben Shahar
Education should be about us instilling in our young people a love of learning and providing them with the social-emotional and practical skills to live meaningful and fulfilling lives. Doing this on a daily basis lifts the spirits of everyone in a school, because there is a collective sense of striving to achieve a higher purpose that really matters – the wellbeing of students, teachers and leadership. That’s why I entered the teaching profession over 40 years ago. At first glance, the Learning Curve seems to have an oversupply of evidence-based wellbeing building resources for schools. The reason is to provide choice. Schools are able to choose activities which suit their own context. Each week the idea is to plan and then choose one or two of the most appropriate activities to discuss with students to grow each of their elements of wellbeing. As staff confidence in their own social-emotional capabilities develops, they often choose to incorporate more of these activities and strategies into their learning and teaching practices. The research from the likes of Martin Seligman, Ed Diener, Tal Ben Shahar and Shawn Achor shows quite clearly that such an approach results in significant personal and academic growth in students and enhanced staff wellbeing. Consequently, the quality of data is also considerably improved. To this end, a number of new resources have been created, including Strengths Boosters and Strengths for Relationships Weeks.
Strengths for relationships Weeks The challenge over the week for individuals and classes is to enjoy focusing their energies on creating activities for and showing the suggested strength to grow all members of the school community’s wellbeing (see pages 27 to 30). Term 1: Gratitude – February 18th to 22nd Term 2: Teamwork – June 3rd to 7th Term 3: Kindness – August 19th to 23rd
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“I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” Carl Gustav Jung 1
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“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” Benjamin Franklin 39
WELLBEING BUILDER: WEEKLY mindset and choice / choice, practice and effort
JANUARY 2019
Mindful Learning Intentions: Growth Mindset: developing students’ Skills and Achievement through them learning to effectively prioritise. Character Strength: exploring ways to show Prudence. Student Wellbeing Fitness Challenge: Tell me more to be mindful every day. Habit of Mind: practising Managing Impulsivity using Exploring Habits of Mind Thinking Tool (see website). Wellbeing Builder Reflection: doing either the Middle or Senior activity to grow the elements of wellbeing (see website). Thinking Tool: developing thinking abilities using CAP – Consider All Possibilities (see website).
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SKILLS AND ACHIEVEMENT MINDSET AND CHOICE
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Wellbeing Bank: to strengthen my Skills and Achievement by choosing to have a growth mindset. From Journey of Mindsets, on page 18, you learned that your mindset changes for different activities you are involved in. For some, you strive hard to grow your abilities through effort to learn more difficult things; while for others, you don’t try because you think you don’t have the ability to master them. A difficult task to master, which gives you choice in what you do, is prioritising. It is doing the things that you need to do in a logical order to ensure they get done on time. Describe how you currently prioritise what you need to do.
Wellbeing Bank: to add to my Skills and Achievement through using effort more intelligently to prioritise. When you combine choice, practice and effort, personal and academic growth nearly always result, except when effort is used to do same low level processes. Focus on how you learn, not what you learn. A more intelligent and effective learning process is to prioritise what you need to get done and doing this turns good intentions into positive actions. Describe how you currently prioritise what you need to accomplish. ............................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................ To prioritise, break up what you need to do into Musts and Options. Musts are things you are committed to do, including family responsibilities, school, training, part-time jobs. Beware of the time lost between them. Options are things that you have a choice in, including texting/phone calls, TV/videos, social networking and socializing. Use the Time Understandings, Musts and Options and Urgency versus Importance Matrix Thinking Tools on website to assist you to complete a detailed daily list of your Musts and Options to create a clear time usage picture. Reward your good efforts with quality activities after you have accomplished something, not before. > Website: Wellbeing Builder Reflection.
.......................................................................................... .......................................................................................... Musts and Options on the website (or page 157) enable you to organise what you need to do: • Musts: are things you have no choice in • Options: are things that you have a choice in. > Website: Musts and Options Thinking Tool, Wellbeing Builder Reflection.
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What are two things I will start doing to learn more intelligently by prioritising?
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Favourite Song – in your mind mentally sing your favourite song while at the same time writing out all of the words and describe what they mean to you and how they make you feel.
Favourite Song – in your mind mentally sing your favourite song while at the same time writing out all of the words and describe what they mean to you and how they make you feel.
RESILIENCE BUILDER
RESILIENCE BUILDER
With two friends describe the types of things that would and wouldn’t happen if there were no classroom expectations, which some people call rules. Brainstorm to come up with at least five main areas you think there needs to be shared class expectations.
The senior years are also times to share special experiences with friends and classmates in social situations and other places. With a friend brainstorm ten of these experiences and the positive emotions you could feel (see index).
WHAT WENT WELL THIS WEEK AND WHY?
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WEEKLY WELLBEING BUILDER: deep breathing / breathing and calmness
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JANUARY 2019 Content from Student Planner
Mindful Learning Intentions:
Growth Mindset: strengthening students’ Exercise and Vitality through them regularly using deep and self-calming breathing strategies. Character Strength: exploring ways to show Gratitude. Student Strengths Booster: Activity One Strengths to use strengths in everyday life. Habit of Mind: practising Thinking about Thinking (Meta-cognition) using Exploring Habits of Mind Thinking Tool (see website). Wellbeing Builder Reflection: doing either the Middle or Senior activity to grow the elements of wellbeing (see website). Thinking Tool: developing thinking abilities using Creative Ripples (see website).
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EXERCISE and vitality DEEP BREATHING
BREATHING AND CALMNESS
Wellbeing Bank: to improve my Exercise and Vitality by regularly practising deep breathing to relax. When you feel anxious or tense, use deep breathing to calm yourself. It grows your self-awareness of your feelings. Describe how you currently calm yourself.
Wellbeing Bank: to boost my Exercise and Vitality through breathing deeply to calm my mind and body. When you will feel under pressure, often your body responds with tension in your neck and back, quickened/shallow breathing, a hot face and anxious thoughts flooding through your mind. It is very difficult to focus your thoughts when experiencing such feelings. Concentrating on breathing deeply for 5 to 10 minutes, is an effective way to self-calm yourself. You can do it anywhere. Describe how you currently self-calm yourself when under pressure.
.......................................................................................... .......................................................................................... Square Breathing is a type of deep breathing which increases your oxygen intake and blood flow to your brain to clear your mind. To breathe this way, follow these steps, by slowly counting to five and then repeating the four steps for ten minutes: 1. inhale and exhale through your nose only 2. purse your lips as if to whistle and inhale through your mouth and exhale with your lips relaxed through your mouth 3. inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth 4. purse your lips inhale through your mouth and exhale through your nose. You can use it anywhere and nobody knows you are breathing deeply. > Website: Self-Calming Strategies Activity Sheet, Wellbeing Builder Reflection.
............................................................................................................ ............................................................................................................ Square Breathing is an effective form of deep breathing and it has four parts which you continue to repeat breathing more deeply. Sit with your hands on your lap and feet flat on the floor. For a slow count of five on each: 1. inhale and exhale through your nose only 2. pursing your lips as if to whistle inhale through your mouth and exhale with your lips relaxed through your mouth 3. inhale through your nose and exhale through your mouth 4. pursing your lips as if to whistle inhale through your mouth and exhale through your nose. > Website: Self-Calming Strategies activity sheet, Wellbeing Builder Reflection.
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What are two things I will start doing to regularly practise deep breathing to calm myself?
What are two things I will start doing regularly to self-calm myself by breathing deeply.
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GRATITUDE WEEK
GRATITUDE WEEK
This week have fun and make a special difference to other peoples’ lives by creating activities to use the strength GRATITUDE to grow relationships with your family, friends and school community.
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This week have fun and make a special difference to other peoples’ lives by creating activities to use the strength GRATITUDE to grow relationships with your family, friends and school community.
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Be kind to my wellbeing by living each of the following. Three Joys: what are the three things I am looking forward to most this week? Wellbeing Fitness Challenge: Saying Thank You – Gratitude Letter – writing a letter thanking someone from my heart who really helped me and then send it to them. Three for Me: what are three things I could value more in my life? Acts of Kindness: what are five kind acts I could do for others this week? Strengths Challenges: to overcome challenges, what is one thing I could do to use this week’s strength Prudence? Homemade soup provides a vitamin and mineral boost to the immune system
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Regular and deep reflection on our professional practice and encouraging honest feedback from critical friends are essential to the ongoing development of learning and teaching in our classes. Be constructive; this is a development exercise, not a judgemental one. Be creative and innovative. CLASS
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DECEMBER 2019 Content from Student Planner
where are you on the journey of mindsets? – adding to my Meaning and Purpose by doing positive things to move myself
towards more growth orientated mindsets.
Setting goals to achieve, gives you a reason to look to the future with optimism and hope. Goals connect you with yourself and focus you on learning and trying new things to grow your brain’s abilities. They are your anchors to be self-aware of your progress.
OUR JOURNEY OF MINDSETS
Your mindset is your belief about how much or how little you think you can grow your abilities through making the effort to learn and try new things. The two mindset extremes are fixed, your abilities can’t change and growth, you can develop your abilities. People with fixed mindsets tend to set performance goals to prove their abilities. Whereas, people with growth mindsets tend to set process goals to improve their abilities. Where do you think the person’s mindset you admire would be on the spread of mindsets below? FIXED AND PERMANENT ........................... > Where is your mindset now? > ........................... GROWTH ORIENTATED
FIXED MINDSETS – about proving
growth MINDSETS – about improving
What are two things I can start doing to move myself towards growth mindsets?
you believe becoming your best possible self comes from “doing” new things. resilient thinking and good choices! your focus on the process you follow; improving your ability you think, hard work + effort = positive achievement. What are two things I can start doing to adopt growth mindsets?
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Avoid setting performance goals at the beginning of each term.
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Set one process goal for each of the following areas of your life: EXERCISE and HEALTHY EATING ........................................................................................................................................................................................ ........................................................................................................................................................................................ LEARNING and THINKING ........................................................................................................................................................................................ ........................................................................................................................................................................................ WELLBEING and HAPPINESS ........................................................................................................................................................................................ © Print & Marketing Services (Vic) Pty Ltd
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