Developing acts to increase well-being and measuring the effectiveness of invented ideas

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https://raisio.adobeconnect.com/team3/

The next team meeting using Adobe Connect is on the 6th of June at noon London time.

Increasing children’ wellbeing

Developing acts to increase well-being and measuring the effectiveness of invented ideas

Group Members

Juha-Pekka (JP) Lehmus (Raisio) juha-pekka.lehmus@edu.raisio.fi team leader

Sari Aaltonen (Raisio) sari.aaltonen@edu.raisio.fi

Paivi Kaarniemi (Vaasa) paivi.kaarniemi@edu.vaasa.fi team leader

Riikka Koivula (Vaasa) riikka.koivula@vaasa.fi school counselor

Juha Sandberg (Raisio) juha.sandberg@raisio.fi Director of Child Welfare

Jaana-Sofia Saarinen (Raisio) jaana-sofia.saarinen@raisio.fi head nurse

Mirka Hynninen (Raisio) mirka.hynninen@raisio.fi school psychologist

Victoria Martínez (Rota) vicky.martinez@salesianos.edu

Guadalupe Rodríguez (Rota) guadalupe.rodriguez@salesianos.edu

Next slide show is Team 3 plans for the spring 2019 after Vaasa project week

The next table is Team 3 planned acts before and until Vaasa project week 2019

Vaasa project week participants: Juha-Pekka Lehmus, Jaana-Sofia Saarinen, Kirstie Randall, Victoria Martinez (these 4 travelled), Paivi Kaarniemi

Rota project week participants: Juha-Pekka Lehmus, Jaana-Sofia Saarinen, Paivi Kaarniemi, Helen Blythe (these 4 travelled), Victoria Martinez

Starting the team work

1. Every member of the team lists 3 – 5 challenges at their school or work, linking the teams objective.

2. What are the planned acts, acts taken in practice and acts that have worked?

3. How do you measure the results of the made acts, if you measure?

Members save their answers on this platform under his/her team link and 'city box'.

4. Team leaders collect the answers together.

The chart for this collective work is here.

5. The team goes through the summary during an online meeting.

We use Adobe Connect as our online program

- Every member of every team gets personal guidance for about half an hour.

- Team leader sends the team meeting invitation through Seppo.

- Everybody needs USB – headphones with microphone!

- You should use the same computer every time you use Adobe Connect.

- Team leader must inform team members about online meeting dates as early as possible (time in GMT).

online meeting should not last more than hour

6. Every good idea and innovation must be saved on this platform.

Getting prepared for the project week in Rota

a) Seppo sends the starting query to Rota in early October at the latest.

b) Salesian save their answers on this platform and under Starting Query before the middle of November (Seppo reminds Antonio if needed)

c) Every teams every member reads the answers before the Rota week

The query is opened and discussed together in the beginning of the project week

Discussions are saved (in writing) on GS

Raisio

JP Lehmus 29.10.2018

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ICLO project 2018 strand 3 – Wellbeing

1. Challenges at school and school health

The biggest challenge at the moment are students growing need for support. In our cities in Finland about 10 % of pupils for basic education are studying in small groups. These students are using about 25 % of all the resources. This is because:

• Increased mental health problems
• the growing challenges faced by families
• social media issues
• social media come through the underlying phenomena such as bullying, low sleep
• lack of school motivation

In the near future we have to develop new methods for teaching students in need of support. It is not possible to increase resources in every year. The problem about growing need for support have to solve by developing more effective support measures.

We have to also develop a much better ways to gather information about our pupils and their needs for support. Whit this information can we in the future much better to share our resources in the right places.

Our teachers training must also be change to meet today's challenges. Our school system has to many old habits which do not response today's requirements.

2. The planned acts, acts taken in practice and acts that have worked

This ICLO - project is of course one of the most important development target in Raisio. Whit this and many another development projects we have chance to improve children's quality of life and learning outcomes.

• By investing in teaching and well being development work
• By finding new ways of teaching
• Being actively involved in nationwide development work

3. How do you measure the results of the made acts, if you measure?

In Finland we have high quality school health care. The school nurse will meet every pupil every year and in certain classes, also their families. Continued care is organized in both physical and mental health problems. Schools have started recruiting multi-professional staff, such as psychiatric nurses.

In Finland we have very little things in our school system which are measured. We do not test our students in the basic education in practice at all. We have a national healthy survey in every four year and teachers keep their own tests for the pupils in every subject. We have in Finland about 600 000 students in basic education. Of all students are nationally tested only few thousand students in every year.

Rota

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10/10/2018 Victoria Martínez and Guadalupe Rodríguez.

Challenges at their school or work:

-Improving the relationship between the family and the school

-Creating a family environment with respect and comprehension to the children in order to make them feel comfortable and safe in the classroom

The planned acts, acts taken in practice and acts that have worked:

-Working some emotional education activities to get to know, express and handle their emotions

-Practising meditation and full attention (mindfulness) in certain times in the classroom, for example, after the recess (because they are restless) and they need to reconnect.

-Working the problem solving in the classroom group

We measure the results of the actions:

-Through the observation in the primary education, we realize that the relationship between the children and the learning-teaching process is getting better with these kind of tasks.

-In the pre-primary education, emotional education activities are taking into account to the children's global evaluation.