Fostering A Positive School Climate Through The Teaching of Happiness

Course Overview

This course is designed to enable teachers to enhance and foster happiness in their lives on both a personal and professional level. We focus on promoting positive wellbeing and self-care, exploring that which makes us happy and overcoming obstacles to same, developing effective communication skills, combating stress and anxiety and building resilience. What better toolkit could one have as we emerge from the isolation, stress and uncertainty of the past two years.

This course explores the concept of “ Teaching Happiness” in a light, practical and interactive way. Starting on a personal level this course aims to demonstrate how by developing skills to enhance our own happiness we can learn to teach others to do the same and hence help to foster a positive working and learning school climate for all.

Learning outcomes

• To afford the teacher the time and opportunity to foster the protection of their overall wellbeing.
• To enable the teacher to adapt the resources they have explored to use with the children in their care to promote positive wellbeing for all in conjunction with the strands of the SPHE curriculum while also fostering positive wellbeing on an ongoing basis in the classroom.
• To benefit from the promotion of positive wellbeing and self-care , the exploration of that which makes us happy , developing effective communication skills , combating stress and anxiety and building resilience for teachers and students alike.
• To engage in and learn from a forum for participants to share experiences, ideas and opinions on topics of exploration.
To enable the teacher to reflect on and evaluate the promotion of positive wellbeing in their schools under the SSE guidelines 2016-2020.