Skills for Effective Learning in School: Supporting Emotional Health and Wellbeing

One of the five books in the Mental Health and Wellbeing Teacher Toolkit, this practical resource focuses on the topic of ‘Skills for Learning’. The book offers research-driven, practical strategies, resources and lesson plans to support educators and health professionals. This is a resource book for practitioners looking to have a positive impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the children and young people in their care; both now and in the future. Chapters span key topics including Metacognition, Learning Dimensions, Problem Solving and Cognitive Strategies. A complete toolkit for teachers and counsellors, this book offers:

• Easy to follow and flexible lesson plans that can be adapted and personalised for use in lessons or smaller groups or 1:1 work
• Resources that are linked to the PSHE and Wellbeing curriculum for KS1, KS2 and KS3
• New research, ‘Circles for Learning’, where the introduction of baby observation into the classroom by a teacher is used to understand and develop self-awareness, skills for learning, relationships, neuroscience and awareness of others
• Sections on the development of key skills in communication, skills for learning, collaboration, empathy and self-confidence
• Learning links, learning objectives and reflection questions.

Offering research-driven, practical strategies and lesson plans, Skills for Effective Learning in School is an essential resource book for educators and health professionals looking to have a positive impact on the mental health and wellbeing of the children in their care; both now and in the future.

Table of Contents

Metacognition

1. Thinking about Thinking
2. Planning our Project
3. Monitoring our Learning
4. Reviewing our Work

Learning Dimensions

• Curiosity: A wish to know and find out and dig beneath the surface.

• Changing and Learning: A sense of getting better at learning over time and of growing and changing and adapting as a learner in the whole of life

1. Milestones

2. Different Ways of Learning

3. My Learning Toolkit/What are my Learning Strategies

4. Look what I Can do Now!

• Learning Relationships: Learning with and from others, and also being able to manage without them.

1. Create an Advert to Celebrate Who You Are.

2. The Build A Brain Team Challenge

3. What is Team Work

4. Skills for Collaboration

5. Constructive Feedback

• Meaning Making: Making connections and seeing that learning matters to me.

1. Before Baby Arrives

2. Lets Relax

3. Thinking Chains

4. Everything That Had To Happen to Make This.

• Strategic Awareness: A sense of myself as someone who learns and changes over time.

1. What is Learning?

2. My Learning Strategies

3. The Emotions of Learning

4. Performance and My Learning Zone

• Resilience: The ability to keep going to develop my own learning, to stick it out and get what I want and need to keep growing and learning.

1. What is Resilience?

2. Resilience and Persistence

3. Be Your Own Life Coach

4. Stress Management

5. Self-Talk

6. The Best Mistake I Ever Made

• Creativity: Risk taking, playfulness, imagination and intuition.

1. My Little Book of Ideas

2. Think Up A Storm

3. Ready Steady Make a Game

4. Good Luck Bad Luck

Problem Solving

1. Problem Solving Part 1

2. Problem Solving Part 2

3. Problem Solving Part 3

4. What Should I do?

Cognitive Strategies

1. Memorisation

2. Mind Maps

3. Revision