2023 Primary Teacher Planner – Day to a page

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INSPIRING MY BEST SELF AS A PERSON WHO MATTERS

What do you want 2023 to be for you:

Personally?

Professionally?

What is a choice that you need to make?

Our Learning Curve description of a healthy state of wellbeing is: feeling optimistic and hopeful for today and for your future, because you know that you are working towards building your best self

The evidence based lessons and activities align with ACARA’s HPE Curriculum for all years of schooling and the Resilience, Rights and Respectful Relationships research for F, 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8, 9-10 & 11-12 from the Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne. Teacher Lesson Guides have been created to support you in teaching every lesson/activity in all planners and journals; go the website under the Wellbeing Program tab for the individual guides.

To complement the student planners and journals, we have created a Staff Wellbeing@School Journal for you, and a Wellbeing@Work Journal for parents, to assist the adults in students’ lives to be self-determined to focus on enhancing their own wellbeing. Our Learning Curve team provides professional development for teachers, parents and leadership teams on how to best learn it, embed it and live it, to enable a healthy state of collective wellbeing across your school community.

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Research clearly indicates that when both your students’ and your state of wellbeing are in a healthy state, significant personal and academic growth occurs. We look forward to an exciting and rewarding year ahead supporting your efforts. Please don’t hesitate to contact me should you have any queries whatsoever.

All the best, Mick Walsh, The Learning Curve Author

Character Strength Weeks

There are eight Strengths Week spread throughout this planner. They provide you and your class with opportunities to practise using your strengths to build a resilient state of wellbeing. They are also fun to do at home with your family. The order of these weeks are: Curiosity, Leadership, Gratitude, Teamwork, Love of Learning, Kindness, Perseverance, Zest.

From the website www.learningcurve.com.au, download the Strengths Weeks sheets from Individual Resources/Character Strengths Weeks and the Wellbeing Awards Certificates from Individual Resources/Wellbeing Awards.

2023 / 2024 / 2025 CALENDARS

2023 CALENDAR

2024 CALENDAR

2025 CALENDAR

2023 AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL TERMS & PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

SCHOOL TERMS

AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY: – www.det.act.gov.au

Monday 30 January (New students)

Tuesday 31 January (Continuing Students) to Thursday 6 April

Monday 24 April to Friday 30 June

Monday 17 July to Friday 22 September

Monday 9 October to Friday 15 December

NEW SOUTH WALES: – www.education.nsw.edu.au

Friday 27 January to Thursday 6 April

Monday 24 April to Friday 30 June

Monday 17 July to Friday 22 September

Monday 9 October to Tuesday 19 December

VICTORIA: – www. education.vic.gov.au

Monday 30 January to Thursday 6 April

Monday 24 April to Friday 23 June

Monday 10 July to Friday 15 September

Monday 2 October to Wednesday 20 December

QUEENSLAND: – www.education.qld.gov.au

Monday 23 January to Friday 31 March

Monday 17 April to Friday 23 June

Monday 10 July to Friday 15 September

Tuesday 3 October to Friday 8 December

SOUTH AUSTRALIA: – www.education.sa.gov.au

Monday 30 January to Friday 14 April

Monday 1 May to Friday 7 July

Monday 24 July to Friday 29 September

Monday 16 October to Friday 15 December

WESTERN AUSTRALIA: – www.det.wa.edu.au

Wednesday 1 February to Thursday 6 April

Monday 24 April to Friday 30 June

Monday 17 July to Friday 22 September

Monday 9 October to Thursday 14 December

NORTHERN TERRITORY: – www.det.nt.gov.au

Tuesday 31 January to Thursday 6 April

Monday 17 April to Friday 23 June

Tuesday 18 July to Friday 22 September

Monday 9 October to Friday 15 December

TASMANIA: – www.education.tas.gov.au

Wednesday 8 February to Wednesday 5 April

Wednesday 26 April to Friday 7 July

Tuesday 25 July to Friday 29 September

Monday 16 October to Thursday 21 December

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

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REGIONAL OBSERVANCE ONLY. **NOT A STATE WIDE HOLIDAY. +TO BE CONFIRMED. †TO BE PROCLAIMED DATES ARE CORRECT AT TIME OF PRINTING. ALL HOLIDAYS ARE SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENT REGULATION. THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY PUBLIC HOLIDAY IS LIKELY TO CHANGE ITS NAME. IT WILL BE DETERMINED BY STATE AND TERRITORY GOVERNMENTS.

2023 YEAR PLANNER

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE

2023 YEAR PLANNER

JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

STRENGTHS BACKPACK

This Lesson: WHY: for your students to think about how well they are using each of their strengths as they are carrying them around in their make believe backpack, and for each of them set a target to aim for. HOW: write their top strengths in their backpack, write one word to describe something they could do for each of them, always be on the lookout to use them. Then have fun colouring their backpack.

Circle how you are using them now using

and set a target.

“You were given this life because you are strong enough to live it.” Ain Eineziz

YOUR MINDSET

This Lesson: WHY: for you and your students to understand what your mindset is, and how you can move it positively towards growth. HOW: accept and believe that you can grow your brain’s abilities through challenging yourself to learn and try new approaches and adapting how you think for different situations. Your mindset is about how much that you believe that you can do this and this varies between two extremes, fixed and growth.

Where is your mindset most of the time?

FIXED > .......................................................................................> GROWTH

Fear to try Courage to try

Fixed Mindset Self-Talk – I can’t improve my ability...

Effort = lack of ability

Not stretch myself to avoid mistakes

Mistakes show what I can’t do

Set easy comfort zone goals

Called Performance Goals

When is a time you surprised yourself by doing something that you didn’t think you could do?

WHICH STEP HAVE YOU REACHED TODAY ?

Growth Mindset Self-Talk – I can and I will improve my ability...

Effort = growth of ability

Stretch myself to improve my abilities

Mistakes guide my learning

Set step by step challenging goals

Called Process Goals

When is a time you learned something new to fix a mistake and improved what you could do?

Performance And Process Goals

An example of a performance goal is: To feel ok in class, I will do what I can do easily to get them right, and leave the harder ones.

An example of a process goal is: To stretch myself in class I will look at which Habits of Mind are the best ways to think to fix my mistakes.

Set a process goal for each of these:

To improve my learning and thinking skills: I will

To be a good friend: I will

To choose something that I want to achieve for me: I will

Acknowledgement: Dweck, Ericsson, Anderson, Costa, Kellick

USING SCREENS KINDLY 1

This Lesson: WHY: for your students to use some of their screen time meaningfully to be kind HOW: use screens to be kind to create positive emotions in their familes, friends and themselves. Have fun being kind doing the following activities.

Using Screens Kindly Activity Your reflections

People Who Care – use the online program Canva to make a photo book of the people who are always there for you. Make sure you include those people who you may sometimes take for granted. Then share this caring photo book with each of these people.

What feelings did you have while making your photo book? Were your people who care happy?

Word Search Share – ask two friends to create their own word search using the free online program Puzzle Maker. Words could be about family and friends’ names, sports, foods, music artists, songs or interests. Then the three of you email your word searches to each other, and have fun doing them.

Was it fun creating and then doing your friends’ word searches?

Photo 7 – this is a week long activity for your whole family. Every day each of your family is to take a picture or shoot a short video on their device of something they appreciate or are grateful for. Then have fun sharing these each night at the dinner table together.

What did you enjoy most about doing this with your family? Any highlights?

This Lesson: WHY: for your students to learn about growth mindset skills which will help them to build their best selves. HOW: the best way to develop any skill in themselves is by making the effort to practise using it often. Celebrate when they use one of these skills by writing about what they did. Reflect on how you use each of these skills using Usually, Sometimes, Not Yet, and share a time that you were proud of how you used them.

Asking Questions – to learn about what you are unsure of.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Using Strengths – to learn your strengths and deliberately use them.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Solving Problems – to work step by step through problems.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Tackling Projects – to see life as a series of projects for you to grow.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Being Excited – to find something good in everything that you do.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Failing Well – to accept mistakes and learn new things to fix them.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

GROWTH MINDSET SKILLS

Content from Student Planner

Content from Student Planner

Being prepared to use these skills shows a growth mindset that you believe you can develop your brain’s abilities by trying new approaches.

Growth Mindset Skills

Thinking Sideways – to change how you think to learn better.

When is a time that you were proud of how you used it?

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Being Alone – to to be happy playing and learning on your own.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Being Kind – to show kindness for others’ and your feelings.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Accepting Difference – to celebrate the wonder of differences.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Enjoying change – to live life as an exciting adventure.

 Usually  Sometimes  Not yet

Acknowledgement: Leo Babauta

Positive Emotions + gratitude: ENJOY FEELING POSITIVE

Fabulous First Five Minutes – ask students to write down someone has been kind to them recently.

WHY: for students to understand the power of feeling positive and how smiling, saying hello and sharing good things will make this happen.

HOW: Read Enjoying Feeling Positive with your class. Explain that when they feel positive emotions that their attention and engagement grows and what they are doing becomes more interesting. Share that they are able to create their own positive feelings by doing simple things, such as smiling to receive smiles back, saying hello with a friendly face, asking RUOK, and sharing the many positive things happening all around them that they are grateful for with their families.

DO: Ask students to explore and answer the PERMAH+ questions, do the Wellbeing@School and Mindful Colouring In activities, Big Five Check In, Wellbeing Tip and ask what made them happy this week? Success Criteria: students will be able to: Explain – what they can do create positive feelings in themselves. Do – smile and say hello more.

Acknowledgement: Fredrickson & Losada

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Positive Emotions + Gratitude

Enjoy Feeling Positive

Books Read This Week

Title Pages

WHY: by understanding that the best way to build your wellbeing is through feeling positive emotions often, you will be more aware to look for opportunities to create them.

Week: THINGS

HOW: when you wake up every morning, think about what you are looking forward to most for the day. During the day smile and say hello often. At night with your family, share things that went well that each of you were grateful for. Daily, aim to enjoy humour, joy and gratitude.

Acknowledgement: Fredrickson & Losada

DO: What are little things that you really look forward to every day?

January 2O23

What is something that happened this week, no matter how small, that you were grateful for?

What character strength can help you with Enjoy Feeling Positive? (pages 6-7)

Mindful Colouring In

Wellbeing @ School

What is an attitude in team members that makes a real difference to how well their team works together, and an attitude that works against a team working well? For

What made me happy?

Acknowledgement: ACARA 5&6 HPE

Wellbeing Tip

Read about a happy and successful person every month to learn more about life.

Big Five Check In

TERM: WEEK: DAY: PRIORITIES / MEETINGS

Wellbeing Challenge: Inspiring Your Best Self

What are you looking forward to most this week?

Consider: how well do you pause to give yourself self-awareness time when you meet someone, to practise how you want them to experience you?

Aim to talk to colleagues several times each week about the core business of learning and teaching; builds morale and understanding.

“We learn by doing what we don’t know how to do.” MW

TERM: WEEK: DAY: PRIORITIES / MEETINGS DONE

Positive Teaching Practices

As we are all well aware, one of the most important perquisites for a fertile learning is the quality of relationships between students and teachers a research study conducted in Los Angeles went on further to identify specific teacher practices which were instrumental in cultivating rich learning relationships this in turn led directly to significant gains in student engagement, learning and achievement.

CLASS PREPARATION AND FOLLOW-UP: 1 2 3 4 5

“Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success.” Saying

Try filo pastry; it is the healthiest pastry.

TERM: WEEK: DAY: PRIORITIES / MEETINGS

Positive Teaching Practices

The study concluded that these practices and interactions with students needed to be all of the time things, not just sometimes things there is no doubt that many of the following suggested practices are alive and well in plenty of classrooms across Australasia explicitly describing them can only assist all of us in the teaching fraternity these desirable positive teaching practices follow.

TERM: WEEK: DAY: PRIORITIES / MEETINGS

Positive Teaching Practices

Being present – listening to students with our eyes, our ears and our hearts students are very good at sensing when our hearts aren’t in it. In my travels, students sometimes tell me that while a number of their teachers know their stuff, they aren’t really there for them as people as the old saying goes, “kids don’t care what we know till they know we care.”

Try

CLASS PREPARATION AND FOLLOW-UP: 1 2 3 4

“Leadership

is action, not your position.” D.H. McGannon

yoga, pilates, aerobics; benefits both the body and the mind.

FRIDAY JANUARY 2023

TERM: WEEK: DAY:

HOW DID YOU FEEL THIS WEEK?

WHAT WENT WELL THIS WEEK?

Take several deep breaths when feeling tense or stressed. FEBRUARY

PREPARATION AND FOLLOW-UP:

“Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.” Benjamin Franklin

REFLECTION TIME JANUARY 2023

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 DID THE CLASS ACHIEVE WHAT YOU WISHED? WHY OR WHY NOT? THINGS TO ACHIEVE/FOLLOW-UP NEXT MONTH

IDEAS BANK / ANY PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT REQUIRED?

connect with yourself and the moment to enjoy feelings of flow and positive emotions.

FEBRUARY 2023

February – is named after the Roman god of purification, Februa. To keep the calendar in line with the seasons, a day was added every four years, making it a leap year with 29 days.

“If you never change your mind, why have one.” Edward deBono

RESPECTFUL RELATIONSHIPS

This Lesson: WHY: for your students to learn about what they do to create and maintain respectful relationships HOW: practise sharing equally, cooperatively and openly with others to feel connected, feeling emotionally and physically safe to feel protected, and feeling that others value them as a person who matters to feel respected.

Reflect on these respectful relationships questions

What are the important things which make up a respectful relationship for you?

What things do you notice when someone has power over someone else in a relationship?

How do you communicate respectfully in healthy relationships?

How have mobile phones affected the quality of your respectful relationships?

How would you recognise if your friends and you were in unsafe relationships?

Should you find yourself in an unsafe relationship, what strategies could you use and who could you seek help from to keep yourself safe?

Not

Respectful

Respectful

Your thoughts and experiences

REFLECTION TIME DECEMBER AND 2024

Regular reflection of professional practice and encouraging honest feedback from critical friends are both essential and beneficial to the ongoing development of learning and teaching.

At the end of each month, reflect on your teaching practice and record your thoughts below. This is a developmental exercise, not a judgemental one; be constructive.

Did you achieve what you set out to do? Why or why not?

Things that went well and why:

Things to improve on and how. Any professional development required?

Things to achieve in the future:

Things to follow up:

Ideas bank:

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE

JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER