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How Continuous Reporting For Students' Social, Emotional and Mental Literacy, improves wellbeing, a sense of belonging and family connection
How can you manage it if you can't measure it?
Traditional methods of gathering data to measure student wellbeing do so over the long term, taking weeks or even happen annually. This leaves a gap not only in the understanding of the student's wellbeing, yet misses the opportunity to respond to those students' needs in a timely and meaningful way. The result is that educators don't know how their students really are and are unable to support them, they don't get the data they need to respond in real-time, track, measure and report on their wellbeing programs or the progress of individual students, classes, or the whole school. This gap puts pressure on educators and means less progress for students and less readiness to learn in class each day.
Through data captured via technology, we can gain valuable insights into how students are feeling in real time and strengthen relationships with teachers and families. Beyond the data, it addresses the critical need to explicitly teach every student how to identify their emotions, how to manage their emotions, and how to communicate their emotions. Ensuring our young people are prepared not only for the future skills of work, yet addressing their needs today.
In this session, Nikki Bonus will discuss:
- How identifying students emotional wellbeing supports learning, relationships and a sense of belonging
- How providing schools and educators with continuous real-time reporting on students’ emotional wellbeing is critical to relationship building with their teachers, family engagement and sense of belonging. As well as reducing behavioural incidents, building resilience and improving student voice, leading to an increase in academic results.
- Why there is a need for a shift from viewing a students' wellbeing through just behavioural and attendance reports, to a more holistic whole child report.
- How technology can provide better information to educators about their students, especially when transitioning from primary to secondary, into a new year, or to a new teacher.
- How technology is evolving to build better learner profiles, what the gaps are and how they are being addressed.
- How technology better provides data to educators for longitudinal and immediate reporting and response.
- How technology helps bridge inequity gaps.
- How the role of technology can support the wellbeing of whole schools, jurisdictions and Dioceses.
- Why it's important to start now.