Promoting Positive Mental Health and Wellbeing in Education
At Champion Tutor, we know the importance of positive mental health and wellbeing, and how it’s linked to success in education. Our track record in helping children and young people from a wide range of backgrounds to reach their academic potential, and to achieve personal wellbeing goals, has helped pupils’ self-confidence to flourish, and prevented school exclusion for children with severe social, emotional, and mental health needs.
children and young people face?
Our tutors are equipped with the intuition and training to support positive mental health, and identify and break down the barriers that young people have with learning.
Since March 2020, Covid 19 has raised challenges for many children and young people whose education has been disrupted. Parents and carers may have faced personal wellbeing challenges alongside supporting home learning, such as isolation or work stress. Many university undergraduates have missed out socially and educationally. Some of our graduate tutors have postponed their gap-years or career plans.
Whatever the case, our young people have been put at a disadvantage in their learning this year, and may feel increased pressure with their studies. With the support of a private tutor, students can gain back missed time quickly, and regain confidence and control of their studies, putting them in a better position to succeed.
How our Tutors Can Support Students
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Wellbeing links and books to inspire
Online
- The research of Professor Carol Dweck (Stanford University) demonstrates how developing a ‘growth mindset’ is essential to a person’s learning and development.’
- The ‘art of brilliance’ specialises in helping people become more positive, motivated and brilliant!rilliant person.
- ‘The School of Life’ supports emotional literacy and resilience for children, young people and adults. YouTube video
- ‘Heads Together’ - Charity supported by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, which challenges the stigma of mental health for children, young people and adults across schools, in the home and in the workplace.
- Mind - Charity that supports those living with or supporting others with mental health issues.
- The ‘Rethink’ toolkit aims to support social and emotional intelligence, encouraging mindful reflection, amongst other positive strategies. It is created by ‘Mindfulness without Borders’.
- RULER (Recognising, understanding, labelling, expressing, regulating) - an approach to build children’s social and emotional literacy, developed at the Yale Centre for Emotional Intelligence.
- The National Autistic Society page on Carol Gray’s Social Stories shows how social stories and comic strip explanations of what, why, when, to whom and how things happen can support understanding of society.
- The Friends Resilience App is a free downloadable game, made by Friends’ resilience, a ‘world health organisation’ endorsed programme.
Literature
- Many thanks to Alistair Campbell for donating five signed copies of his book, ‘Living Better’ to the ‘Champion Tutor’ North East England launch, in which he describes his ongoing struggle with depression.
- Carol Dweck writes about how fulfilling one’s potential requires a growth, rather than fixed ‘Mindset’.
- Phillipa Perry talks to the Guardian about her book, ‘The Book you Wish your Parents had Read’. Champion Tutor co-founder Linda Burgess recently heard her speak at the London ‘Life Lessons’ event.
- Dorothy Nolte’s classic, and still poignant poem and book, ‘Children Learn what they Live’.
- Fiona Murden’s ‘Mirror Thinking’ highlights the importance of positive role models in forming who we are.
- ‘A Toolbox of Wellbeing’, by Tina Rae - strategies and activities to support the response to Covid 19.
- ‘Breathe Out: A Creative Guide to Happiness for Teen Minds’, by ‘Mind’ (edited by Fiona Rose and illustrated by Celeste Wallaert), shares ideas for coping with pressures of social media and relationships
- ‘Helping Children Cope with Loss and Change’ - a new book by Amanda Seyderhelm
- A brand-new guide, by Jamie Victoria Barnes, shows how learning approaches like growth mindset, forest school and multiple intelligences help build confidence, emotional intelligence and resilience in children.
- In her new book ‘And Now for the Good News’, Ruby Wax celebrates schools embedding emotional education, with great results, amongst other things worthy of cheer at a time when we need it! Ruby’s website also explores many more proven positives for good mental health, such as how practising mindfulness can transform the brain.
- Kimberley Wilson - How to Build a Healthy Brain – this new book demonstrates the importance of a healthy lifestyle and nutrition in learning and wellbeing.