Supporting Wellbeing and Mental Health in Schools
This course looks at the impact that mental health difficulties can have on student outcomes and shows how to create mentally healthy schools where students can thrive. You will learn how to identify the needs of a student with mental health needs and develop interventions and strategies to support students’ specific developmental needs.
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Course Structure:
As a self-paced blended learning course, participants:
- work through 6 modules of online course content, (licensed from and hosted by Online Training International / OLT), over a period of approximately 8-10 weeks, and
- attend 3 mandatory online sessions (75 – 90 minutes each) with the course tutor via the WebEx platform.
Course content
Understanding
Assessment for Learning
Successful completion of the course requires that participants:
- Explore the concepts wellbeing and mental health, the main influences on these and the impact of mental health difficulties on student outcomes
- Learn about the main types of mental health disorders and their incidence, and the relationship between mental health and disability.
Assessment for Learning
- Learn how and when to use wellbeing surveys and questionnaires in schools; and how to evaluate the results of these.
- Develop a conceptual framework for supporting mental health in schools where pupils and teachers can thrive.
- Describe specific approaches and tools that schools can adopt to monitor and support pupil wellbeing
- Create and test your own ‘whole school approach’ action plan
- Determine when to seek further information and support from a variety of sources
- View real examples that illustrate both the student voice, as well as how schools’ approach and implement wellbeing and mental health supports and interventions in their setting.
Successful completion of the course requires that participants:
- read all online content, complete end of section quizzes,
- contribute to online forum topics,
- develop three SMART goals with accompanying interventions to apply learning into practice in both the whole school and classroom setting.
- participate in three face-to-face sessions (WebEx meetings).
Course Audience:
This course is designed for education professionals working in schools and specialist settings including teachers, school leaders, primary and secondary wellbeing officers and teams, and allied health officers.
As components of the course focus on student assessment, goal setting and program planning, interested Education Support staff (aides) should discuss this with a teacher from their school as it is best practice for teachers and ES to collaborate on these parts of the course.
As components of the course focus on student assessment, goal setting and program planning, interested Education Support staff (aides) should discuss this with a teacher from their school as it is best practice for teachers and ES to collaborate on these parts of the course.
Course Fee:
Registration process:
Step 1 - Complete the form below, providing name, role, workplace and contact details.
Step 2 – Complete the PayPal payment process below. Alternatively, your school / setting can request to be invoiced for this course by emailing a purchase order to [email protected]
Step 2 – Complete the PayPal payment process below. Alternatively, your school / setting can request to be invoiced for this course by emailing a purchase order to [email protected]
If you have any queries regarding this course, please
- Call us: 03 9478 8895
- Send us an email: [email protected]
Registration
COST $33 Payment due prior to the commencement of the course.
No refunds can be provided once your registration is confirmed
No refunds can be provided once your registration is confirmed