Hywel Roberts

Teacher, Writer and Storyteller based in the UK

Workshop Information:

This session is built around the 'hard' emotion of joy. Hywel will share how cultures in curriculum, classrooms and corridors can be enhanced by the sharing of professional wisdom.

Drawing on current positive psychology research, Hywel will share approaches that will enable you to excel in your role as class teacher and leader.

He will cover:

• How joy can become a central part of your day

• What the research tells us

• Employing discerning pedagogical decisions

• Powerful 'Botheredness' models as a boon to creative practice and placing learning into contexts that bring the abstract to life

• Building the bridge between published and lived curriculum

• How our teacher persona and stance impacts learning and progress

• There will also be joy

Session Outcomes: 

1. Strategies and approaches that can be used straight away back in school

2. Conversation prompts to have back in school

3. Colleagues will leave with a renewed understanding of the importance of joy in the arena of wellbeing

Biograhpy

Hywel is an experienced teacher in Special, Primary and Secondary settings, nationally and internationally. He is recognised as an in-demand speaker, writer, humourist, and pedagogy philosopher. Hywel specialises in using Drama approaches and storytelling in classrooms.

His books include ‘Oops! Getting Children to Learn Accidentally’, ‘Uncharted Territories’ (written with Dr Debra Kidd) and ‘Botheredness’

He was recently described as ‘..a world leader in enthusiasm’.

He also runs a brewery.

www.botheredness.co.uk

Ian McMillan, writer and broadcaster on the book ‘Botheredness’: This book places teaching where it should be: at the centre of a nexus of art and science and thoughtfulness and resourcefulness and practicality and dreaming and love. This is a book for all teachers and, let’s face it, all human beings. Read it and grow.