Amanda Aiken a Senior Director of Schools at New Orleans College Prep, says, “They (students) aren’t going to be prepared for college if they’re suffering".
Early intervention for the child — and education for the parent — is key, says an educator involved in wellbeing.
Today student wellbeing is considered to be an important element of a good school. Some of the factors have made it necessary. Factors such as- changing environment, family structure, poverty, toughening academics, dilemmas in career etc.
In order to identify and support children wellbeing needs we need to align the wellbeing strategies and programs into our school practices. For this we need staff training, organisational change etc.
Aiken says that, “Teachers are trained to teach. We have all taken a child psychology class, but we’re not trained to work with kids with mental health needs,” she says. Here comes the need of teachers training on wellbeing.
There are many layers and also kinds of wellbeing programs. One such initiative is taken in Singapore, a wellbeing curriculum is implemented, which is known as 'SEL' - Social Emotional Learning. In order to support children we can collaborate social-emotional curriculum into our regular curriculum.
These kind of teachings will help students to identify critical emotions, understand themselves etc. It will also help students open up, and it also help build the skills which kids will need throughout life, like managing emotions.
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