Week 7: Promoting wellbeing and building resilience
Introduction
In Week 7 you will explore opportunities to promote wellbeing within your everyday teaching and ways of supporting learners to develop resilient behaviours, especially in dealing with their study challenges.
By the end of this week, you should be able to:
- identify barriers to and enablers for learner wellbeing
- recognise the wellbeing value of assessment choice and feedback
- summarise strategies to ensure group work can support learner wellbeing
- understand the negative impact of emotive and triggering content on learners’ wellbeing and resilience
- encourage the development of resilience skills in learners.
Promoting positive wellbeing with your learners is not only beneficial for their overall life, but also provides benefits for their academic achievement (Suldo et al., 2011). Greater levels of wellbeing in learners also correlates with personal attributes such as self-confidence and a growth mindset (King, 2017). The past six weeks have already touched on some approaches for reducing and coping with stress and anxiety, but this week there will be more of a focus on general learner wellbeing and on the prevention of mental health imbalance via the promotion of resilience skills.