8 Summary of Week 7

This week you have explored approaches that you can use as an educator to maintain and develop your learners’ wellbeing and resilience. Many of these can be simple, small steps that you incorporate within your education environment, which could nevertheless have a profound impact on your learners. This is because less stressed and more emotionally healthy and resilient learners will have greater capacity to fully engage in their learning, to form beneficial relationships with their peers and to overcome any hurdles in their learning experience. The aim has been to give you an insight into a range of factors that can strengthen resilience and protect learners’ wellbeing. You could refer back to this week when considering assessment choices or giving feedback. You might also like to refer to some of the models that have been introduced, like the taxonomy of wellbeing or PERMA, when planning strategically for learner wellbeing.  

The main learning points for this week are:  

• It is important to identify barriers to and enablers for learner wellbeing.
• In your role as educator you should recognise the wellbeing value of assessment choice and feedback.
• There are strategies to ensure that group work can support learner wellbeing, rather than hinder it.
• As educator, it is vital that you understand the negative impact of emotive and triggering content on learners’ wellbeing and resilience
• There are various ways in which you can encourage the development of resilience and resilience skills in learners.

This week’s content also incorporated skills that you can utilise for promoting your own wellbeing as an educator, which is the focus of the next and final week of this course.  

Next week you will explore educator self-care strategies and how to create a mentally healthy learning environment for yourself and your learners. 

You can now go to Week 8.