Full Description
Do you want to help your students develop their social and emotional skills?
Do you want to help build a whole school approach to mindfulness and wellbeing?
The Mindful Teacher's Toolkit gives you clear directions to develop mindful practices and ideas for how to integrate these into your teaching. The book contains detailed guidance on how to work with different age groups, from 4-18 years, and looks at whole-school approaches through specific subject areas and implementation strategies.
Designed so that you can dip into each chapter, all of the activities are adaptable by language, tone and content so that you can apply and personalise them to your teaching. The combination of expert advice, teaching tips, reflections, activities and real-life examples provides you with everything you need to be able to develop your own mindful classroom and contribute to improving wellbeing in your school community.
Contents
Introduction: Awareness-Based Wellbeing in Schools
Section I: Teaching Mindful Awareness
Chapter 1: Mindful Awareness in the Early Years Classroom (3-6 year olds)
Chapter 2: Mindful Awareness in the Primary Years Classroom (7-10 year olds)
Chapter 3: Mindful Awareness in the Middle Years Classroom(11-13 year olds)
Chapter 4: Mindful Awareness in the Secondary Years Classroom (14-18 year olds)
Chapter 5: Top Teaching Tips
Section II: Embedding Mindful Awareness
Chapter 6: Mindful Awareness in Sports and Performance
Chapter 7: Mindful Awareness across the School
Chapter 8: Developing a Coherent Approach: Implementation Q&As
Conclusion: Aligning Awareness-based Wellbeing with Societal and Environmental Change
