janis coffey - positive education schools association
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An Exploration into
Positive Education
How are you?
How are you really?
Authenticity
What is Positive Education?
Positive Education focuses on specific skills that assist students to strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote mindfulness and encourage a healthy lifestyle.(GGS definition)
A Positive Education Approach
Live It
Teach
It Embed
It
Reference: An Applied Framework for Positive Education
Live it
•Staff attending Positive Education training•Ted Talk Seminars•Book Club Discussions• In-house professional
development• Immersion•Focus Groups
Teach it
•Explicit curriculumContent being taughtTo whom it is taught
• Implicit curriculumThe way things are doneHidden curriculum
Ellen Langer’s Mindful School
•Premature Cognitive Commitment
•Teacher’s language impacts student willingness/openness to questioning and taking other perspectives• ‘could be’, ‘suggested that’, ‘….possibility’
•Mindfulness and learning are synonomous with fun
Embed it
•School-wide practices
•Community involvement
•Teacher Appraisal Systems
•Behaviour Management
•Priming the physical environment
How is Positive Education evolving?
Case Study: Geelong Grammar School, VIC
•Explicit curriculum from Prep – Year 10
•Resilience retreats for Year 11
•98% all GGS staff trained
• Institute of Positive Education
•Explicit focus on mentoring relationships between students
Case Study: Mount Barker High School, SA
•Build the capacity for teaching Positive Education in the Adelaide Hills
•Facilitated training to over 120 teachers and resulted in a Positive Education approach that supports over 3200 students in ten schools
•Provide two training sessions per term for educators and community members
•Reception to Year 12 curriculum mapping of Positive Education
Case Study: Westwood Primary, Hong Kong
