Health and wellbeing in teacher education

2010 Scottish Teacher Education Committee Conference

Mary McLeanTheresa Campbell

(University of Glasgow)

Health & Wellbeing in Teacher Education26 April 2010

Aims of the seminar To present a model for supporting student teachers to

contribute to the development of young peoples’ health & wellbeing

To outline the successes and challenges of the approaches taken by University of Glasgow for delivery of programmes in health & wellbeing in ITE and CPD

To highlight the central role of partnership in the development and delivery of the programmes

To share how we are doing so far and to glean how others are doing.

And all in 30 minutes!

Opportunities & Strengths New curriculum, new structure, new possibilities Provided focus for pooling of strengths & experience Pro-activity meant management receptive to suggestions Staff learning along with students Continual access to school staff through Postgraduate

Cert

Challenges & Weaknesses Period of uncertainty and change in Faculty Getting to grips with identity of H&W! Limitations of funding & resources Only one step ahead of students

The Context

Pre-delivery Identification of H&W coordinator

Formation of core planning team

Audit of provision across programmes

Negotiation of time with Programme Leaders PGDE (Primary & Secondary), BEd Primary, BEd Music,

Awareness raising for colleagues

The Approaches

Delivery - Programmes

PGDE (Primary & Secondary)

BEd Primary

BEd Music

Postgraduate Certificate in Primary Physical Education

Postgraduate Certificate in Expressive Arts

The Approaches

Delivery – Programme Structure Conference Days

H&W at the heart of a Curriculum for ExcellenceMeeting the Challenges

Inputs from specific Faculty subject areasPhysical EducationScienceReligious and Moral EducationDrama

The Approaches

Delivery – Programme Structure Modelling and highlighting of approaches by all

staff across programme

Integrated Inputs with focus on teaching & learning

Assessment tasks with scope for reflecting on H&W

The Approaches

Feedback at this stage

Positive responses from students - but want more

Continued enthusiasm from colleagues to develop

Willingness of school partners and outside agencies to be involved

The Approaches

Student Feedback Keynotes and workshops very well received

Appreciated schools inputs in particular

Liked the format of the day and appreciated level of organisation

Helpful suggestions for future

The Approaches





The Approaches

Scottish Network for Able Pupils workshop – we were

encouraged to share our experiences. I now feel more confident about this area of

teaching and learning

Alan McLean was excellent.

Really enjoyed massage

The session on dyslexia was really valuable. It was great to get an overview and to learn of sources of further information

Grief and loss session was particularly helpful as it was fully related to classroom practice and offered real examples of how to

deal with school issues

Samba drumming – fantastic experience

taking drums outside and playing in front of the

building

Work-life balance lecture was really helpful – we really needed to have those issues pointed out

to us!





The Approaches

The HTs talks were excellent … good to

hear from a HT point of view

It was great to hear headteachers speaking. It was great to hear both primary and secondary points of view and

how important they feel H&W is to the curriculum

The Heads discussion … gave a good insight into a variety of topics

from individuals working with the curricula in every day situations

The talks from the headteachers were very motivating and

helpful

The headteacher’s talk was particularly good and a highlight of the

day





The Approaches

It was an excellent way to de-stress and finish

the year

Very useful day. These were very important issues. Small groups

allowed for interaction.

Knowing the programme a few weeks prior to the day and

being able to book the courses on MOODLE was very good

All of the sessions were very informative and I feel I can use

the information and experiences gained from the conference in

my future teaching career

A good way to end the course with info to meet future challenges and a

feelgood factor to top it off





The Approaches

More like this earlier and throughout the course

please

I would have liked to have done all of the

morning workshops as they were all so relevant

Excellent way to end the course – wish we could have had experienced more of this during the

year.

It would have been of benefit to have a teacher who had just completed their probation year for a

Q&A session regarding the life/work balance during that year and to answer

questions on what to expect

This sort of day should be held at

different points over the year.

Plans for Development Re-audit colleagues Ensure a strong location in revised BEd Ensuring equal importance given to each of the 6

specific organisers CPD roadshow

The Approaches

Current Faculty staff Colleagues in schools Local Authorities Outside agencies LTS Students

To be forged Local Authorities – NQT programmes Colleagues in Higher Education

Key Partnerships

We have presented our approach for scrutiny.

1. Are there similarities/ differences to approaches you have used?

2. What gems can you offer to help all of us in this venture?

Discussion