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  • These Days: Youth Suicide Teacher Resource Kit

    These Days: Youth Suicide Teacher Resource Kit

    Kick start the conversation with These Days: Youth Suicide Teacher Resource Kit. The aim for this kit is to demystify the issue and reduce the social taboos that prevent an open and effective discussion about suicide with young people.

    These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide
    These Days is a short film exploring the aftermath of a youth suicide (Malik) on his friends, family and school community. It is targeted firmly at Australian teenagers in language and tone, and has a very honest look at teenage life today. The narrative focuses on Malik’s friend Chloe as she struggles with the grief and depression that follow this tragedy. It provides an opportunity for viewers to reflect on warning signs, positive and negative coping strategies, and ultimately the importance of resilience and a strong support network.

    Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers
    This program provides background information on suicide and advice about how to discuss suicide in a classroom setting. It helps viewers understand what leads to suicide/suicidal thoughts among teens, the warning signs you may see in the school setting and what to do if you suspect a student is suicidal. We also look at how teachers can support themselves, the school community and students who are dealing with the aftermath of a student’s suicide or attempted suicide”

    This kit includes:

    • These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide
    • These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (Censored Version)
    • These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (with Extended Commentary)
    • Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers
    • Discussion guide with questions to consider and student activities to support mental health and wellbeing
    • Consent form template in case you wish to obtain parental consent prior to viewing
    • Instruction on how to use the videos

     

  • Child Development: Stepping Stones

    Child Development: Stepping Stones has been designed to appeal to a wide variety of students, and in particular, to provide students preparing for careers in child development, early childhood education, social work, and related fields with a comprehensive understanding of development. The twenty-six 30-minute video lessons cover a wide variety of topics affecting the developing child, give students the opportunity to observe children, and feature interviews with leading child development experts and medical professionals.

  • These Days: Youth Suicide Teacher Resource Kit

    These Days: Youth Suicide Teacher Resource Kit

    Kick start the conversation with These Days: Youth Suicide Teacher Resource Kit. The aim for this kit is to demystify the issue and reduce the social taboos that prevent an open and effective discussion about suicide with young people.

    These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide
    These Days is a short film exploring the aftermath of a youth suicide (Malik) on his friends, family and school community. It is targeted firmly at Australian teenagers in language and tone, and has a very honest look at teenage life today. The narrative focuses on Malik’s friend Chloe as she struggles with the grief and depression that follow this tragedy. It provides an opportunity for viewers to reflect on warning signs, positive and negative coping strategies, and ultimately the importance of resilience and a strong support network.

    Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers
    This program provides background information on suicide and advice about how to discuss suicide in a classroom setting. It helps viewers understand what leads to suicide/suicidal thoughts among teens, the warning signs you may see in the school setting and what to do if you suspect a student is suicidal. We also look at how teachers can support themselves, the school community and students who are dealing with the aftermath of a student’s suicide or attempted suicide”

    This kit includes:

    • These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide
    • These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (Censored Version)
    • These Days: A Short Film on Youth Suicide (with Extended Commentary)
    • Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers
    • Discussion guide with questions to consider and student activities to support mental health and wellbeing
    • Consent form template in case you wish to obtain parental consent prior to viewing
    • Instruction on how to use the videos
  • Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers

    Understanding Youth Suicide: A Guide for Teachers

    Suicide has been a taboo subject but attitudes are changing. There is a push to raise public awareness, openly discuss and seek different approaches to this complex and highly emotive issue. Teachers, students and school communities should be prepared to deal with this tragedy. In this program, Psychiatrist Patrick McGorry and Psychotherapist Julie Lynn Evans discuss factors that may lead to thoughts of suicide, warning signs, what to do if you suspect a student is contemplating taking their own life, how to respond to a student in distress, coping with the tragedy of a student taking their own life and how teachers can support themselves as well as students in the school community. The short film and commentary was produced in consultation with Psychologist Susan O’Brien, MATS; CEDP. Essential for all high school teachers wanting to tackle this difficult subject matter but not sure exactly how.

  • The Empty Desk

    For many young people, the school environment is a place of learning, creating friendships, forging an identity and searching for a direction in life. However, there are some students who have difficulty in actively engaging in the learning process and therefore run the risk of not completing their school education. ‘The Empty Desk’ is a practical and informative program that focuses on how educators can identify and assist students at risk. It introduces what ‘student at risk’ is, examines the causes of disengagement and provides strategies that educators can use in the classroom to build a strong teacher student relationship. Also featured are interviews with teachers from The Pavilion School, Melbourne.

  • Teaching ESL Students in the Mainstream Classroom

    It is vital for teachers to consider the language used in their subject area from an ESL learner’s point of view. This informative program helps teachers accommodate ESL learners with real-life classroom examples and practical strategies. We explore how teachers can consider the language demands of their lessons and use non-verbal cues to enhance language comprehension. We then explain how language modeling builds learner confidence and how to differentiate between language and content when correcting. Finally we demonstrate the “Think- Pair-Share” strategy for concept checking and discuss the importance of integrating cognitive taxonomies and learning styles to build thinking skills.

  • Philosophy for Children

    Governments give education a high profile but today it is increasingly about targets, testing and technology. And some people disagree with this narrow approach. There’s now a lot of evidence to show that emotions play a big part in how we think and make decisions and therefore fostering emotional literacy can improve academic performance, communication skills and self-confidence. This is a fascinating look at the work of Antidote as for the first time they take a whole school approach to introducing children to their emotions and questioning and reasoning skills – with some stunning results. Inspiring and thought-provoking professional development for teachers.

  • The Healthy Teacher

    Being a teacher today is an incredibly rewarding experience – but it can also be stressful. Maybe its long hours or a heavy workload, possibly it’s the particular school environment, perhaps it’s even parental pressure creating the stress. Whatever the cause, it’s vital that you approach your teaching career with an awareness of the aspects of the job that can cause stress and be informed about finding a healthy balance between work and life. In this program we follow a typical day in the lives of two teachers – experienced professionals who have got the balance right. Through them, this professional development program explores the areas that affect teacher’s physical, emotional and social wellbeing in reducing stresses and anxiety. It will examine the importance of healthy eating, physical activity, wellness and mind matters and their essential role in achieving optimal health within the teaching profession. An informative, practical and motivational resource for both new and established teachers. Chapters: 1. Balancing Work and Life 2. Healthy Eating 3. Physical Activity 4. Wellness Matters 5. Mind Matters

  • Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom

    Emotional Intelligence in the Classroom

    This program provides teachers with a basic understanding of what Emotional Intelligence is and how it can be utilized in the classroom to generate a positive learning environment. There is ample evidence now to suggest that emotional intelligence is more powerful than intelligence on its own. This program also provides specific ideas that teachers can incorporate in their classes to promote better emotional understanding which forms the basis for all relationships both in school and beyond into the workplace at a later stage. The program also focuses on why schools are ideal settings to promote the enhancement of emotional intelligence.

  • Different Paths

    Focuses on three children born with special needs. It revisits some of the major developmental themes in previous lessons as it considers the biosocial, cognitive, and psychosocial changes from conception through adolescence.