Pathway to Resilient School Communities
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Student Resilience
Schools must provide all of our youth, but especially those most at risk, with experiences that will build their reservoir of resilience.
Why do some youths overcome seemingly insurmountable odds during childhood to become productive and happy adults? With dozens of strikes against them, how do they manage not only to survive but to thrive?
Why do some youths overcome seemingly insurmountable odds during childhood to become productive and happy adults? With dozens of strikes against them, how do they manage not only to survive but to thrive?
Staff Resilience
Teaching children is one of the greatest and most rewarding career choices one can do. You wake up every morning, you have a bunch of eager faces ready to greet you in a classroom which you can make your own. It is one of the most variable, exciting and flexible jobs around and the teacher has the autonomy to make it just that. No need for repetitive chores and duties! Just a chance each and every day to inspire, engage and connect with learners with an abundance of skills, dreams and ideas they are hanging out to explore.
Adulthood is filled with a range of stresses and responsibilities. Things get sprung on us all time. Is a child’s life really stress free? Children today have numerous pressures and setbacks as we all do. Think about the pressure of the Friday spelling tests, standing up in an assembly to recite a poem, encountering bullies in the playground, falling out of a tree and breaking a limb.
Adulthood is filled with a range of stresses and responsibilities. Things get sprung on us all time. Is a child’s life really stress free? Children today have numerous pressures and setbacks as we all do. Think about the pressure of the Friday spelling tests, standing up in an assembly to recite a poem, encountering bullies in the playground, falling out of a tree and breaking a limb.
Community Resilience
Did you ever wonder why some of the families and children we work with overcome their hardships, despite crisis, pain, and difficult life experiences?
When this occurs, we say that the family or child involved has the power to bounce back--that they are resilient.
As teachers, our job is to promote resiliency in families and children, to help them recover from whatever challenges they face, be it abuse, neglect, or separation. In order to succeed in this task, we need to be able to do two things. First, we need to know how to assess families and children for the traits that promote or inhibit resiliency. This allows us understand the strengths a particular family can build on to solve the problems that confront it. Second—and more importantly—we need to know how to help families obtain or maintain their ability to "bounce back."
When this occurs, we say that the family or child involved has the power to bounce back--that they are resilient.
As teachers, our job is to promote resiliency in families and children, to help them recover from whatever challenges they face, be it abuse, neglect, or separation. In order to succeed in this task, we need to be able to do two things. First, we need to know how to assess families and children for the traits that promote or inhibit resiliency. This allows us understand the strengths a particular family can build on to solve the problems that confront it. Second—and more importantly—we need to know how to help families obtain or maintain their ability to "bounce back."
Protective (or resiliency) traits are strengths that help a person or family cope with stress or life difficulties, increasing the likelihood of rebound from difficult situations. Resiliency traits include: a sense of humour, being first- born, having insight into situations, and independence. These traits are tools people can use in times of crisis; they give them the edge and help them make it through the situation. These traits don't prevent problems, but they do help solve them.
Program contents
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School Community Resilience Program
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Reflection card sets
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Email the following details to info@moned.net
Please supply a digital copy of
___ Pathways to Resilient School Communities – 2019 USB $159 No GST payable
Name
School
Order number (NSW public schools should order through EDConnect)
Postal address
Postcode
Email your order to info@moned.net
Michael Auden
NSW EDConnect supplier number 100387105
Qld Supplier number S20039316
ABN 39 929 256 117
15 Dewbay Court Claremont Tasmania 7011
