2023 Resilient Mindset Teacher Planner

2023 RESILIENT MINDSET TEACHER PLANNER

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“I am not what has happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” Carl Jung

2023 / 2024 / 2025 CALENDARS

2023 CALENDAR

“You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself.” Glinda – Wizard of Oz

2023 AUSTRALIAN SCHOOL TERMS & PUBLIC HOLIDAYS

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

*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.

“Merit and good breeding will make their way everywhere.” Lord Chesterfield

Content from Student Planner

Lesson Three

SENSE OF PURPOSE

Resilient Mindset Intention: by discovering a purpose to strive for and something meaningful in what you do, you will feel that your life is an exciting adventure. Japanese people call their reason for waking up every day their ikigai. Often, a lack of motivation is caused by not having a purpose in your life. To feel that you matter comes from valuing yourself and having a sense of purpose, which enables you to focus your efforts on something bigger than yourself.

What is something that means a lot to you which gives you a sense of purpose in your life and why?

Look at the diagram. What is your ikigai, your reason for waking up every morning?

What do you love?

What does the world need?

What are you good at?

What jobs interest you?

What are little things you do which make a positive impact on others’ lives? And what would happen if you stopped doing them?

Last Word: who is someone you admire who has a strong sense of purpose to help other people? ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

Lesson Four

WELLBEING FITNESS CHALLENGES

Resilient Mindset Intention: by focusing on doing each of these challenges for a week, you will grow your wellbeing fitness to do what you need to do to become your best self. Learning more about yourself through helping other people to become their best selves will assist you to enjoy feeling plenty of positive emotions.

THINKING OF OTHERS

Positive Vibes – every day send a friend or a family member who is struggling a text saying that you are thinking about them and ask how they are travelling. What are kind texts that you can send?

GRATITUDE LETTER

Being Thankful – write a letter from your heart thanking someone who really helped you to overcome something challenging and then give it to them. Who is someone that you can write a gratitude letter to and why?

TELL ME MORE

Interested Listening – when listening to someone share a story, when they begin to run out of words, ask them to Tell Me More about it at least three times. When is a time that you have done this, and what happened? ............................................................................................................

SELF-IMAGE

Positive Messages – create a list of five self-affirming I am, I can, I will messages about how you want to be and spend 30 seconds saying each one every morning. What are your positive messages to yourself?

LOOKING FORWARD

Positively Focused – every morning think about what you are looking forward to most for the day ahead, write it down, and enjoy it when it happens. What is something that you look forward to often and why?

WHAT WENT WELL

Being Grateful – every day look for three things that happened that you are grateful for, and put them on a gratitude board on your bedroom wall. What has gone well this week that you were grateful for?

Last Word: what do these wise words mean to you? “Being deeply loved gives you strength; loving deeply gives you courage.” Lao Tzu

Lesson Eight

CHARACTER STRENGTHS

Resilient Mindset Intention: for you to learn that character strengths are your personal best ways of looking at and doing what you do. There are 24 of them and you have your own personal mix of them. Google Tiffany Schlain Character Strengths to watch a great YouTube clip, “Science of Character”. For each strength in the table, fill in what number they were on the survey. The 24 strengths bring six virtues to life, which are:

• Wisdom – about your thinking and reasoning • Courage – about your spirit and confidence

• Justice – about your community being healthy

• Temperance – about being in charge of you

• Transcendence – about you helping others

• Humanity – about your positive relationships

VIRTUES 24 CHARACTER STRENGTHS

VIRTUE OF WISDOM

VIRTUE OF COURAGE

CREATIVITY Thinking and designing in original and novel ways

BRAVERY Doing what your mind says is right for you

CURIOSITY

Exploring and being interested in learning more

PERSEVERANCE

Persisting through challenges to finish

VIRTUE OF HUMANITY

VIRTUE OF JUSTICE

VIRTUE OF TEMPERANCE

LOVE Being loving and feeling loved by others

TEAMWORK Being loyal to and working well with others

KINDNESS Being generous and caring with others

JUDGEMENT

Thinking in open-minded and critical ways

HONESTY

Being true to your values

LOVE OF LEARNING

Enjoying mastering and learning new things

ZEST

Feeling full of energy and enthusiasm

PERSPECTIVE

Making sense of what is happening

VIRTUE OF TRANSCENDENCE

APPRECIATION OF BEAUTY & EXCELLENCE

Feeling wonder & awe about special things

FORGIVENESS

Giving others a second chance

GRATITUDE Being thankful for what you have in your life

HUMILITY Letting achievements speak for you

HOPE

Feeling you can influence your future

FAIRNESS

Being just and kind with others

PRUDENCE

Being careful to not take silly risks

HUMOUR

Having fun, laughing and smiling

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

Knowing why others act and think in certain ways

LEADERSHIP

Bringing out the best in others

SELFREGULATION Controlling your impulses and emotions

SENSE OF MEANING

Having a purpose larger than yourself

Acknowledgement and thanks to the VIA Institute. © 2014 VIA Institute. All Rights Reserved.

Last Word: what do you think Martin Seligman meant when he said, “Just as we don’t realise we are breathing, we often don’t realise we are using our character strengths.”?

Lesson Nine

CHARACTER STRENGTHS WHEEL

Resilient Mindset Intention: for you to create a visual representation of your top eight character strengths to raise your self-awareness of them. Fill in your top eight strengths in the Strengths Wheel, and rate how you currently use each strength using NOW 0 1 2 3 4 5 and how you would like to be using it in a month’s time using TARGET 0 1 2 3 4 5.

Acknowledgement: Rievich & Shatte

For each of your top strengths, write down something that you can do.

Last Word: describe a time that you were proud of how you used your strengths and how did you feel?

Lesson Ten

VALUES, VIRTUES AND STRENGTHS WORD SEARCH

Resilient Mindset Intention: for you to practise looking for and then using more accurate vocabulary to describe values, virtues and strengths, which is an important skill of emotional literacy. An effective strategy to do the word search is to first look for the most unusual letter in each word in the search, and then look for the rest of the letters in the word around it. Have fun doing this word search.

Last Word: from the word search, what are two values you live by and two strengths that you use regularly?

Lesson Eleven

JOMO IN, FOMO OUT

Resilient Mindset Intention: for you to understand that many people are addicted to the short-term feel-good hits that they receive from the brain chemical dopamine when they are on their phones with social media. This causes in them FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) which glues their faces to their phones. FOMO can be beaten by using JOMO (Joy Of Missing Out) by getting feel-good serotonin hits from talking with their family and friends. JOMO enables you to feel great without dopamine.

Acknowledgement: Rievich & Shatte

Explore what dopamine is, how it is released in your brain and how it affects you?

Explore what serotonin is, how it is released in your brain and how it affects you? .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

How could using JOMO enable you to feel more relaxed and grow your resilient mindset? ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

When is a time that you said no to your friends about joining in something, which made you feel the feel-good effects of JOMO?

Last Word: William Johnsen once said, “If it is to be, it is up to me.” What do you think he meant by this and how could it relate to JOMO and FOMO?

Lesson Twenty

TOTAL ENGAGEMENT: FLOW

Resilient Mindset Intention: for you to understand that when you totally engage yourself in an activity, you provide yourself with an opportunity to experience a state called flow, where your creativity can increase fivefold. For flow to occur in class, you need to be clear on the purpose and learning intention of the lesson, you need feedback on how you are learning, and your skills need to be matched to a challenge which really stretches them.

Acknowledgement: Nakamura, Kotler & Csikszentmihalyi

Google Chris Bliss juggling to see a person experiencing flow. What feelings do you think he is feeling? Do you think he is losing track of time?

What is an activity you love doing, where you forget about time and are totally involved doing it? Is it an enjoyable experience?

When you are doing any activity, you will feel one of the states in the diagram on the following page, depending on how much the challenge of the activity stretches your skill levels. For each of these states, describe an activity you do.

Apathy: Worry: Boredom:

Anxiety: Relaxation: Excitement: ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................

HIGH ANXIET

WORRY

PERIOD PLANNER

WEEK 1 WEEK 6

WEEK 2 WEEK 7

WEEK 3 WEEK 8

WEEK 4 WEEK 9 WEEK 5 WEEK 10

This week...

RESILIENT MINDSET / WHAT WENT WELL

MONDAY

Who is someone who really cares about other people?

TUESDAY

What places in nature fill me with positive emotions?

WEDNESDAY

What is something good that happened today?

THURSDAY

What body language shows that I believe in myself as a person?

FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY

What relatives am I grateful to have in my life?

Signatures:

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

PREPARATION AND FOLLOW-UP: CLASS

Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life.” Saying

“The highest reward for man’s work is not what he gets for it but what he becomes of it.” John Ruskin

TERM: WEEK: DAY: PRIORITIES / MEETINGS DONE

Notes

Learning and teaching in the 21st century 21st teaching must focus on using the right brain: making connections and seeing patterns creating new understandings teaching students how to think different ways of thinking understanding thinking through Habits of the Mind curriculum will be learning centred and process focused; replacing teaching centred and content focused.

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

CLASS PREPARATION AND FOLLOW-UP: 1 2 3 4

“If you judge people you have no time to love them.” Mother Teresa

Take several deep breaths when feeling tense or stressed.

“An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.” Benjamin Franklin

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 our teaching practice and record 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:

2024 FORWARD PLANNER

JANUARY FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE

2024 FORWARD PLANNER

JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

Resuscitation

If a person is not responding, not breathing and not moving ‘get help quickly’ call 000 for an ambulance. If at any time the person starts breathing, place in recovery position (supported on their side), monitor breathing while waiting for the ambulance.

Step 1

DANGER

Check for danger to yourself, others and casualty. If unsafe, remove any danger OR remove casualty from danger.

Step 2

RESPONSE

Ask “Can you hear me?”, gently squeeze casualty’s shoulders. No response, call 000 for an ambulance – go to Step 3.

Step 3

AIRWAY

Tilt the head back and lift the chin – go to Step 4.

Step 4

BREATHING

Look for normal breathing. Not breathing – go to Step 5.

Step 5

CPR

Place your hands in the centre of chest. Push down hard 30 times, then give 2 breaths.

Continue cycle of 30 compressions and 2 breaths until help arrives. Attach AED if available.

ADULT/CHILD compressions – use two hands with fingers interlocked. INFANT compressions – use two fingers.

BREATHS – Pinch nostrils, seal your mouth over casualty’s mouth, ensure chest rises with each breath. DEFIBRILLATION – If a defibrillator is available, apply and follow voice prompts.

Stop CPR if casualty starts breathing, ambulance officers tell you to stop or you are physically unable to continue.

This information is not a substitute for training in first aid.

© St John Ambulance Australia.

LEARN FIRST AID WITH ST JOHN – CALL 1300 360 455 or visit: www.stjohn.org.au

“It’s better to be looked over, than overlooked.” Mae West

Asthma First Aid

ASSESS

AMild? Short of breath, wheeze, cough, chest tightness. Moderate? Loud wheeze, breathing difficulty, can only speak in short sentences. Severe? Distressed, gasping for breath, difficulty speaking two words, blueness around the mouth.

IF THE PERSON HAS SEVERE ASTHMA OR IS FRIGHTENED, CALL AN AMBULANCE IMMEDIATELY – DIAL 000.

SSIT

Sit the person upright and stay with them. Reassure calmly.

TTREAT

Treat with 6 puffs of the blue ‘reliever’ inhaler. Use a spacer, if available, for aerosol inhalers. (One puff at a time in the spacer, person to take 6 breaths each puff.)

HELP

HIf not improving after 6 minutes, call the ambulance. Continue to use blue inhaler 6 puffs (as above) every 6 minutes until help arrives.

In an emergency situation you will not overdose the person by giving them the reliever every 6 minutes.

MMONITOR

If improving after 6 minutes, keep monitoring. If necessary repeat doses of blue inhaler.

AALL OK!

When free of wheeze, cough and breathlessness, return to normal quiet activity. If symptoms recur, repeat treatment and rest. See your doctor.

Remember the Rule of Six: 6 doses of medication (one puff at a time)

6 breaths per puff

6 minute wait

ASTHMA FOUNDATION CAN HELP YOU

This chart is published for information purposes only and should not be used in place of medical advice/ treatment.

Information and education services are available from your local Asthma Foundation

1800 278 462

With thanks Asthma Foundation