Wellbeing and Self Management for Senior Students: Jim Carrey's Inspiring Commencement Speech

The Melbourne declaration served as a catalyst for schools to embrace wellbeing as fundamental to students schooling lives and futures (MCEETYA, 2008). Through this catalyst several programs and models have been developed, one such is CASELs approach to SEL (Social and Emotional Learning) that highlights self-management as part of the holistic wellbeing model.

Today’s youth are part of an age of technology, and as such it is important to provide information and resources that are relevant to them (Barnes, Marateo, & Ferris, 2007). In recognition of this, a blog has been developed that will inform, educate and develop students self-management skills and through this improve their wellbeing. The resource is designed to be implemented once weekly over a 10 – 20 min lesson (pastoral care/home room) over the course of a term. By minimising the amount of time required students are more likely to engage with the resource and also less likely to be negatively impacted by an increase workload. It then becomes standard routine practice for students to participate in and further enhances their opportunities for improved wellbeing (DET, 2012).

Students are learning valuable lifelong skills they can use to manage stress and improve their wellbeing during year 12 and after(Morris, 2013). The resources are student focused and this strategy enables them to interact with the resource but also take control of the learning that is taking place. Providing these opportunities to maximise student participation is critical in developing children and young people’s sense of belonging, wellbeing, self-worth and self-awareness.

References

Barnes, K., Marateo, R. C., & Ferris, S. P. (2007). Teaching and learning with the net generation. Innovate: Journal of Online Education, 3(4), 1.

DET. (2012). Learning and Wellbeing Framework. Retrieved from http://deta.qld.gov.au/initiatives/learningandwellbeing/resources/learning-and-wellbeing-framework.pdf.

MCEETYA. (2008). Melbourne Declaration on Educational Goals for Young Australians. Retrieved from http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED534449.pdf.Morris, I. (2013). A Place for Well-Being in the Classroom? Research, applications, and interventions for children and adolescents (pp. 185-198): Springer.

Wellbeing and Self Management for Senior Students

Jim Carrey's Inspiring Commencement Speech

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