2. What is Positive
Schooling?
An approach to education that
incorporates student wellbeing and virtues
as learning goals, besides academic
achievement.
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3. Positive Schooling
âȘ Positive schooling is
âȘ teaching children to think positively
âȘ sharing excitement with the multitude of others
âȘ turning students into teachers who continue to
share what they have learned with others
âȘ creating sense of trust in the classroom
âȘ fostering the importance of diversity
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4. Importance of
Education
The ultimate objective of education is
1. imparting knowledge to students,
2. enhancing their skills,
3. helping them in building their character, and,
4. finally, producing skilled and responsible citizens for
nation building.
Therefore, schools play an important role in achieving the
objective of education and in shaping the career of a
child.
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5. Positive Education
â Positive education is an approach to education that draws on positive
psychology's emphasis of individual strengths and personal motivation to
promote learning.
â Positive Education brings together the science of Positive Psychology with
best practice teaching to encourage and support individuals, schools and
communities to flourish.
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6. Positive Education
Flourishing as a combination of âfeeling good and doing goodâ.
Positive Education focuses on specific skills that assist students to
strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal
resilience, promote mindfulness and encourage a healthy lifestyle.
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7. Positive Discipline
â Positive School Discipline is a comprehensive approach that uses discipline to
teach rather than punish and, as a result, helps students succeed and thrive in
school.
â Schools that take this approach promote positive student behavior while
preventing negative and risky behaviors.
â Positive School Discipline is integrated into the policies, programs, and
practices of a school and is applied systemwideâin the classroom, school,
and communityâto create a safe, supportive learning environment for all
students.
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8. Positive School Culture
Proven ways to build a positive school culture
1. Create meaningful parent involvement
2. Celebrate personal achievement and good behavior
3. Establish school norms that build values
4. Set consistent discipline
5. Model the behaviors in school
6. Engage students in ways that benefit them
7. Create rituals and traditions that are fun for students and teachers
8. Encourage innovation in the classroom
9. Professional development for teachers
10. Maintain the physical environment of your school
11. Keep tabs on your schoolâs culture, and make adjustments when necessary
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17. Positive
Schooling
The aim of positive schooling is to
â Promoting human development
â Teaching students how to make themselves
happy
â Decreasing depression
â Facilitating academic performance
â Offering easier systems for teachers
â Increasing motivation among students
â Boosting resilience
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19. Care, Trust
and Respect
for Diversity
1. Teachers must model positive emotions and care
for their students in the classroom.
2. Development discipline: helping students who
have insecure attachments to caregivers.
3. Encourage students to be sensitive to students
who are different and also respectful.
4. Positive classroom management techniques,
including when punishment and reward are used.
5. Implement "Jigsaw Classroom" and focus on
group-based goals
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20. Motivation
âȘ Brighten the course content for students
âȘ Be sensitive to the needs and reactions of their students, and take their
questions very seriously + make every effort to give the best answers.
âȘ Take risks and try new approaches in class.
âȘ Give praise (best to be delivered privately) to students so that they feel valued
and will be energized.
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21. Plans
â Teaching necessitates a careful planning process on the part of instructors
â Make material relevant to students, so as to better engage students in learning.
â Take reference from the students' own contexts
â Class demonstrations using discrepant events
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22. Plans and
Motivation
â Teachers who are creative, enthusiastic, and
connect with their class help motivate students.
â These skills also help make the material easier to
understand and more relevant to the class. This
helps motivate students and teach them to reach
their goals.
â Through motivation and planning, student goals
can be universally met.
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23. Goals
âȘ Teachers can have negative or positive effects on their students. Positive
teachers teach students to appreciate and gain respect towards learning.
âȘ Learning is a process that doesn't just happen inside the classroom, it can
happen anywhere.
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24. Goals in Positive
Schooling
âȘ Goals that are agreed upon by students
and teachers.
âȘ Goals target the student's learning efforts.
âȘ Reasonably challenging goals engender
learning.
âȘ Avoid emphasizing grades too strictly once
learning goals are made
âȘ Make goals understandable and concrete.
âȘ Take larger learning goals and subdivide
into smaller sub goals to be tackled in
stages.
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25. Hope in Positive Schooling
âȘ Hope helps students become lifelong problem solvers and positive schooling encourages the
process of learning how to learn.
âȘ Positive schooling not only teaches the course contents, but it also produces a sense of hope. A
hopeful student believes that they will continue to learn even after stepping out of the classroom.
âȘ Use the goals, planning and motivation previously built to encourage a spirit of inquiry in the
classroom.
âȘ Teaching disposition should communicate a deep caring about the ideas and how these ideas
are derived, understood and expressed.
âȘ This passionate caring will be modelled unto students, who are empowered to become lifelong
problem solvers, and instill a sense of hope.
âȘ Hopeful thinking that is generated will know no bounds in the life of a student who never stops
learning.
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26. Giving back
(Teachers)
âȘ Care, trust, and respect for diversity is key to a positive
school
âȘ Attachment theory principles
âȘ This helps kids with insecurity about their caregivers
âȘ "we/me" environment is important to the classroom
âȘ Shown through the jigsaw idea which places group-based
learning, and teaches trust, respect, and cooperation with
others.
âȘ To help give back to your teachers, you can visit them,
encourage them, and help whenever you can.
âȘ Give thanks to those teachers in your life that have
encouraged or inspired you
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28. PROSPER SCHOOL PATHWAYS EXAMPLES OF SCHOOL & CLASSROOM PRACTICES &
STRUCTURES
Encouraging POSITIVITY
Supporting students to develop positivity skills and
experience positive emotions
âą Provision of opportunities for students to experience and
amplify positive emotions and build positive learning
environments e.g through the use of music, dance,
humour, cooperative learning tasks
âą Explicit teaching of the values and skills needed for a
Positive Mindset
âȘ Optimistic thinking, positive tracking, positive
conversion, hopeful thinking and expressing
gratitude
âȘ Mindfulness
â Provision of opportunities to practise these skills
1. Encouraging Positivity
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29. 2. Building Relationship
PROSPER SCHOOL PATHWAYS EXAMPLES OF SCHOOL & CLASSROOM PRACTICES &
STRUCTURES
Building RELATIONSHIPS
Supporting students to develop the social skills and
pro-social values that underpin positive relationships
and building positive relationships within the school
âą Strategies for developing:
âą a safe & supportive school culture
âą positive student-teacher relationships,
âą positive student-peer relationships
âą positive school-family & school-community relationships
âą Explicit teaching of social skills and pro-social values
âą Provision of opportunities to practise these social skills
âą Interpersonal structures that facilitate relationships e.g.
cooperative learning groups, cross-age teams, cooperative
games,
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30. 3. Facilitating Outcomes
PROSPER SCHOOL PATHWAYS EXAMPLES OF SCHOOL & CLASSROOM
PRACTICES & STRUCTURES
Facilitating OUTCOMES
Provision of optimal learning environments
and opportunities to learn specific skills that
enhance studentsâ outcomes &
accomplishment
âą Adoption of evidence-informed teaching strategies
âą Explicit teaching of skills for:
âą Organisation
âą Goal achievement (e.g. effort, persistence + willpower
(grit) and problem solving)
âą Effective studying
âą Promotion of a Growth mindset
âą The use of critical and creative thinking tools that
challenge and scaffold
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31. 4. Focusing on Strengths
PROSPER SCHOOL PATHWAYS EXAMPLES OF SCHOOL & CLASSROOM PRACTICES &
STRUCTURES
Focusing on STRENGTHS
Taking a strengths-based approach with students,
teachers and the whole school community
Adoption of strengths-based approaches to organisation,
curriculum and planning which results in:
âȘ Students identifying, exploring and applying their character
and ability strengths in lessons, in extra-curricular and
leadership activities
âȘ Teachers using task differentiation based on studentsâ
character & ability strengths
âȘ School psychologists and coaches using strengths-based
approaches
âȘ âą recognition and application of teacher and parent strengths
and collective strengths using change strategies such as
appreciative inquiry
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32. 5. Fostering Sense of Purpose
PROSPER SCHOOL PATHWAYS EXAMPLES OF SCHOOL & CLASSROOM
PRACTICES & STRUCTURES
Fostering a sense of PURPOSE
Supporting students to develop a sense of
purpose and meaning
Provision of opportunities for students to:
âȘ participate in student-owned and student-directed
activities
âȘ be involved with community service or service
learning
âȘ make contributions to the school through âstudent
voiceâ & participation in decision-making about
aspects of the school
âȘ undertake roles requiring peer mentoring or peer
support
âȘ undertake leadership roles
âȘ explore spirituality
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33. 6. Enhancing Engagement
PROSPER SCHOOL PATHWAYS EXAMPLES OF SCHOOL & CLASSROOM
PRACTICES & STRUCTURES
Enhancing ENGAGEMENT
Providing opportunities for high student
engagement
Adoption of:
âȘ evidence-informed teaching & learning
strategies
âȘ relationship-based teaching strategies
âȘ activities that incorporate critical and creative
thinking
âȘ curriculum differentiation and extra-curricular
activities so students experience âflowâ
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34. 7. Teaching Resilience
PROSPER SCHOOL PATHWAYS EXAMPLES OF SCHOOL & CLASSROOM
PRACTICES & STRUCTURES
Teaching RESILIENCE
Supporting students to develop the
skills and attitudes that underpin
resilient behaviour.
Explicit teaching of skills for:
âȘ Coping and acting resiliently in both personal
and academic contexts
âȘ Acting with courage
âȘ Good decision-making
âȘ Self management
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