Wellbeing has become a key talking point worldwide. This has resulted in new initiatives and breakthroughs within the education sector. The recent 小蓝视频 Edruptors conference delved into this subject in a discussion led by Nalini Cook, Head of EMEA Research at 小蓝视频, alongside a panel of four popular education podcasters.
You can view聽a聽soundbite of this session on our聽. It includes advice for international schools on the most important teacher skills when wishing to develop schoolwide wellbeing.
If you missed our recent Edruptors Conference, here are just a few of the key messages from the wellbeing discussion鈥
Kyra Kellawan, host and creator of the PilotEd Podcast offered advice on how schools can create a wellbeing focused community. Kyra discussed the value of schools developing open mindedness, resilience and building communication between staff and students to empower one another and form an allyship.
Nicholas McKie, Associate Professor and Director of Persyou, presented a thought-provoking message about how a holistic environment is achieved through 鈥渃ollaboration not isolation鈥. Nick discussed how schools need to set the conditions for flourishing, by forming a different mindset, moving past targets, and instead looking at relationships and compassion.
Richard Henry, a school Head and Where鈥檚 Your Head At? Podcaster, debated whether current curriculum and pedagogy models are helping or hindering the wellbeing of teachers. He highlighted how recent disruptions have shown that assessments can be done differently: 鈥淟et the teachers do their thing and change the direction, let the students drive the direction鈥.
Sophie Bailey, Founder and Host of The EdTech Podcast, drew attention to how technology has made schools more creative around their curriculum and how it is taught. 鈥淭echnology has brought focus to support networks and collaborative means moving to a hybrid learning model and rethinking the environments we learn in to support student and teacher wellbeing, social and emotional needs fuel our learning success鈥.
For more valuable discussions聽from the conference, take a look in the and forthcoming issues of聽International School Leader Magazine.聽To participate in more informative discussions, we hope to see you on our forthcoming webinars or presentations, or at聽next聽year’s聽Edruptors聽Conference聽in July 2022.
