Geestelijke gezondheid op school: informatie en lesmateriaal
Eén van de sleutelcompetenties is ‘werken aan de geestelijke gezondheid van de leerlingen’. En dat is niet gek, want 40% van de Vlaamse jongeren voelt zich niet goed in z’n vel (Vlaamse Jeugdraad, 2016). En hoewel dipjes en moeilijkere momenten nu eenmaal deel uit maken van het leven, moeten we waakzaam zijn dat deze dipjes niet uitmonden in grotere psychische problemen, zoals angststoornissen, depressie of eetstoornissen.
Drie zaken centraal bij aan bod brengen geestelijke gezondheid op school:
- Het versterken van skills om je goed in je vel te voelen en om met moeilijke momenten om te gaan;
- Het bespreekbaar maken van psychische problemen;
- Het inbedden van losse acties in samenhangend beleid rond ‘mentaal welbevinden op school’.
Samen Veerkrachtig
Van 1 tot 10 oktober zet Vlaanderen het belang van een goede geestelijke gezondheid in de kijker. Onder het motto ‘Samen Veerkrachtig’ word je uitgenodigd om een kleine of grote actie voor leerlingen/ leraren/ de gehele school/ te organiseren en zo veerkracht in de kijker te zetten.
Veerkracht?!
Veerkracht is dat wat je nodig hebt om je goed in je vel te (blijven) voelen, ondanks een tegenslag of dip. Zo kan je daar misschien zelfs sterker uitkomen. Wist je dat je veerkracht zelf kan trainen? Praten met anderen, voldoende bewegen of nieuwe dingen uitproberen, zijn alvast een paar tips. Op NokNok.be vind je nog meer tips en adviezen voor jongeren van 12 tot 16 jaar.
‘Veerkrachtig zijn’ gaat niet enkel over je leerlingen, het gaat ook over jou: de leraar! Ook jij verdient het om goed in je vel te zitten. Op Geluksdriehoek.be vind je meer info en tips voor volwassenen (+16).
Aan de slag met je leerlingen? Dat kan!
Om zelf een actie op poten te zetten tijdens de 10-daagse van de Geestelijke Gezondheid is er de jaarlijkse inspiratiegids. Daarnaast kan je op deze pagina terecht voor een overzicht van bruikbare lesmaterialen van expert-organisaties en je (con-)collega’s!
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Take off: Lesson package
Take off is a teaching package about mental health. With answers to questions that really bother young people. Take off helps to make mental health a topic for discussion in the classroom.
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#WELINJEVEL: Mental well-being of young people
In this bundle, teachers can work with their class or group on the mental well-being of their students on the basis of six concrete exercises.
This booklet is published by VU Pascal Heytens - Beheerstraat 46 - 8500 Kortrijk.
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#WELINJEVEL 2.0: Mental well-being of young people
#WELINJEVEL 2.0 is a first extension of the first bundle #WELINJEVEL .
The expansion contains a series of new exercises that you can use in your class and/or group to get started on mental well-being. The focus of these exercises is more on the group …
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Peer support at school, working on a connecting school climate
The Conflixers is a project of the Flemish School Organization (VSK). Through the Conflixers we want to promote and support peer support in schools and inspire, inform and empower students.
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Onderons: Podcast and lesson sheet about friendship
Onderons is a podcast about friendship for and by children aged eight to twelve. A gang of enthusiastic chatterboxes talk about friendship in five episodes in all kinds of scents and colors.
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Tournée Amicale, a podcast about friendship with free lesson card
Friendship is central to this lesson. Can friendships change over time? Should you invest in your friends? Is it important to be able to laugh and cry together? Can you make friends abroad? And what do you expect from each other? The lesson is …
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Stress chicken: Do not panic, dance with the music!
Children have experienced much more stress in recent years. JOETZ vzw maps this theme in a positive and airy way with the stress song. With this song, children from primary school want to bring dancing and singing.
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We(l) are young!: Lesson package
Eleven concrete ready-made assignments on mental well-being for young people that you can use in your class, your practice, your guidance.
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Sidekick Sam Academy: Online platform for teachers
The Sidekick Sam Academy is an online platform with the aim of informing, inspiring and connecting teachers (to be) so that they get even more tools and insights to make children and young people more resilient and to increase their well-being. …
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Support: If you are having psychological difficulties or want to support others
The app offers action tips and concrete knowledge to strengthen your own well-being and that of others.
- In the app you can work on self-care.
- You learn to recognize signals when someone has psychological problems.
- You will find information and tips …
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Are you crazy!? game
Game to work with your students on mental health. Through a role play, young people are made to think about how they deal with difficult situations, which less helpful reactions they can encounter and what they can do to feel better about …
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Are you crazy!?: Workshop in the classroom on mental health
Adolescence is a period in which young people develop their own identity and discover the world. They may have many questions about their own thoughts, feelings and behavior and those of others. Yet talking about this is difficult.
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