3. Mental Health Fitness - Lesson Plans Across The Curriculum | 2024
Practical Lesson Plans Across The Entire Curriculum To Promote Positive Mental Health
The world is moving at a faster pace than ever. We are facing unprecedented levels of intrusion into our lives, with social media, technology, mobile phones and 24 hour news and advertising, all vying for our attention. In this new world, looking after our mental health has never been more important.
This course aims to integrate mental health awareness and fitness across the school curriculum. It aims not only to benefit students, but also look after the mental health of the Teacher too. More and more demands are being placed on the Teaching Professional now, from students themselves, parents, regulations and changing work environments. This course aims to help navigate these demanding times.
We use the Actualise Academy Model of Neuroscience, Clinical/Emotional Psychology and Behavioural Science to practical, evidence-based strategies to help maintain and improve mental health, across the curriculum, incorporating lesson plans across a range of subjects.
Topics covered include incorporating mental health into lesson plans, incorporating empathy into lesson plans, incorporating the STOPP methodology to help deal with stressful situations, and the ACE it methodology for daily contentment. Our comprehensive lesson plans and resources provide you and your students with the strategies and support you need to understand and promote mental health.
LEARNING OUTCOMES:
Here is a list of the modules in this course, with the learning outcomes of each. We also build in School Self Evaluation into all courses, making the SSE Process as smooth as possible:
Module 1: Rationale For Incorporating Mental Health Into Lesson Plans 1. Participants will learn:
- The reasons for incorporating well-being into everyday lesson plans
- Given a worked example of how and why well-being is incorporated into an English class
Module 2: Rationale For Incorporating Mental Health Into Lesson Plans 2. Participants will learn:
- Continuation of Module 1
Module 3: Incorporating Empathy Into Lessons Participants will learn:
- Understand the influence of social connection and social intelligence and how this can help develop empathy skills
- Understand the role of status and peer to peer influence and the positive role of the Teacher in modelling empathy
Module 4: Incorporating the STOPP methodology – helping to manage stressful situations and promote positive solutions to everyday circumstances
- Participants will learn to use the STOPP methodology, and how and when to use it effectively.
- Participants will be led through examples of how to use the STOPP method, and how it can be incorporated into lesson plans
Module 5: ACT IT!
- Participants will learn about the ACE it methodology, as well as the psychological and neuroscientific evidence behind how it works and why it works.
- Participants will also be introduced to the integration of the ACE it method into lesson plan creation and exercises across the academic and social curriculum.
Additional Resources Available With This Course: Additional resources include lesson plans, videos, podcasts, interviews, research articles and much more.
"Thank you for this engaging and insightful course!"
- Ms. Jane Lowe
Your Instructor
Michelle is a Clinical Psychologist, graduated from the Master’s of Science (MSc) degree in Clinical Psychology, at the Superior Institute of Applied Psychology (ISPA), Lisbon, Portugal. She has also graduated from the first Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Psychology degree in the history of Dublin City University (DCU), and is a member of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI).
Michelle has worked as an Outreach Community Support Service (CSS) Worker in Dublin, a Cluster Relief Project Worker for homeless people in Dublin, an Assistant Psychologist at the Association for Psycho-Social Study and Integration (AEIPS), Lisbon, Portugal and as an Assistant Teacher for children with Asperger Syndrome.