Course Outline

• Do you want to better understand and improve your wellbeing at home and at work?
• Do you want to teach in a way that promotes student wellbeing and engagement?
• Do you want to combine better academic standards AND support staff and student wellness?

Does wellbeing improve academic standards?

The received wisdom in school improvement is to work staff and students harder and longer to achieve better standards, typified by staff routinely working 20+ hours extra per week to “get the job done,” and students being put through Saturday morning or after school booster classes.

The evidence from a Public Health England report (https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/5a7ede2ded915d74e33f2eba/HT_briefing_layoutvFINALvii.pdf) suggests that wellbeing or academic standards doesn’t need to be a binary choice and actually both support each other.

This course draws upon the learning from a number of schools who have chosen a different way to educate; one that engages students, motivates teachers and improves wellbeing for all.

Benefits of the course:

• Understand the research that shows that good wellbeing can improve student outcomes.
• Understand the difference between personal and professional wellbeing and why this is important to you and your students.
• Learn tried and tested strategies that engage students with learning and draw on your flair as a professional to get the best out of your students and leave you fulfilled as a teacher.
• Learn how to embed school based wellbeing which raises standards, is sustainable, tried and tested and gained approval from Ofsted.

Course Detail

What is the problem with the system now?

• Reasons for stagnation of standards nationally
• Why schools default to the drill and test approach

What is good wellbeing personally and professionally and how can it support you?

• What is wellbeing and why is it important in school. Critically also what it isn’t!
• Difference between personal and professional wellbeing
• What does good student wellbeing look like, the place of student voice?

Dispositions and learning attitudes in the classroom

• Strategies that develop positive learning dispositions
• Understanding the power of a positive mindset
• Understanding that learning can be hard and that we all make mistakes

Looking After You!

• What happens when we don’t look after ourselves.
• A toolkit of strategies that help you to be the best version of you as a professional
• A personal audit to help you build positive approaches to wellbeing that protect you from the pressure of the job.

Presenter Profile

Andy Mellor is currently the National Wellbeing Director for Schools Advisory Service, working with schools, trusts and local authorities across England and Wales. He is a Past National President of the NAHT. He also currently chairs NAHT’s Life Members Sector Council and is a member of the NAHT National Executive.
He was a National Leader of Education, having worked in Blackpool schools for over 20 years and was a member of the Blackpool School Improvement Board, the Blackpool Opportunity Area Board, and the NAHT Accountability Commission.
Andy was previously the headteacher of St Nicholas C of E Primary School in Blackpool having taken the school from Requires Improvement to Outstanding and opened and led the Blackpool Teaching School Alliance. Until recently Andy was the independent chair of the Blackpool Multi Academy Trusts Chief Executives Group.
He has also been the Strategic Lead for the Carnegie Centre of Excellence for Mental Health in Schools based at Leeds Beckett University.
“What drives me is the ambition to have all those working in our schools understanding and supporting their mental health and wellbeing so that they can thrive, flourish and be the best version of themselves both personally and professionally.”
Andy has worked with Crown House Publishing to write and launch his first book entitled
“The Wellbeing Effect – How a focus on whole school wellbeing can raise standards for all learners and help your school community to thrive.”
The book is available now on Amazon and suggests a new more mentally healthy way to improve standards for staff and students, that is tried and tested.

Cost: £150 per delegate; £50 each for subsequent delegates from same school

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