WELLBEING SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL Session 2 Using the

WELLBEING SELF ASSESSMENT TOOL Session 2 - Using the Wellbeing Selfassessment Tool © NSW Department of Education

PURPOSE The Wellbeing Self-assessment Tool has been developed to assist schools in understanding wellbeing by engaging with the Wellbeing Framework for Schools and the key concepts that underpin the development of healthy, happy, successful and productive individuals. The self-assessment tool includes a number of processes that schools may engage with to: • Identify and assess their current wellbeing approaches or programs • Identify evidence to support their assessment • Identify areas for future growth. © NSW Department of Education August 2017

SCHOOL EXCELLENCE FRAMEWORK Wellbeing is one of six learning elements of the School Excellence Framework Excellence in wellbeing In schools that excel, there is a strategic and planned approach to develop whole school wellbeing processes that support the wellbeing of all students so they can connect, succeed, thrive and learn. © NSW Department of Education

THE WELLBEING SELF-ASSESSMENT TOOL © NSW Department of Education August 2017

1. ENGAGE WITH THE WELLBEING FRAMEWORK School communities engage with the Wellbeing Framework for Schools through professional learning to develop an understanding of the concept of wellbeing and its close links with learning. As a result school communities should have a shared understanding of: • • • The role schools can have in positively influencing wellbeing The continuum of wellbeing support for ALL, SOME and FEW students The key themes, domains, and elements of the wellbeing framework The strong links between school excellence and wellbeing The need to have a planned approach to wellbeing that incorporates the elements of the wellbeing framework. © NSW Department of Education August 2017

1. ENGAGE WITH THE WELLBEING FRAMEWORK FOR SCHOOLS Enable • Connect • Succeed • Thrive Themes © NSW Department of Education • Enabling school environment Elements • Cognitive • Emotional • Social • Physical • Spiritual Domains • Teaching and learning • Behaviour, Discipline and Character Education • Learning and Support • Professional Practice • Effective Leadership • School planning • Achieving school excellence in wellbeing SEF August 2017

ELEMENTS OF WELLBEING © NSW Department of Education Behaviour, discipline & character education Teaching and Learning and Support Professional Practice School planning Effective Leadership August 2017

A WHOLE SCHOOL APPROACH TO WELLBEING Consider the approaches and programs that support student wellbeing at your school. • What school processes and practices are in place that support ALL students? • What school processes and practices support SOME students to access additional opportunities? • What school processes and practices support a FEW students?

2. IDENTIFY CURRENT/ FUTURE APPROACHES AND PROGRAMS School Wellbeing Mapping Scaffold © NSW Department of Education August 2017

ACTIVITY: USING THE SCHOOL WELLBEING MAPPING SCAFFOLD Use the School Wellbeing Mapping Scaffold to: • Identify a current wellbeing approach or program • Map the approach/program against the five domains of wellbeing. • Identify the sustained learning, teaching and leadership practices of this approach/program • Determine if the approach/program meets the needs of all students, some students and/or a few. © NSW Department of Education August 2017

3. EVALUATING IMPACT OF CURRENT AND FUTURE APPROACHES/PROGRAMS • Identify an individual approach or program to evaluate or whole school wellbeing evaluation • Identify evidence of impact- data • Evaluate how the approach or program supports students to connect, succeed and thrive. © NSW Department of Education August 2017

SOURCES OF EVIDENCE © NSW Department of Education August 2017

ACTIVITY: EVALUATING WELLBEING Identify an individual approach or program Tick the statements that the approach or program supports Identify your data. Consider: • Where will we find evidence of impact? • What data will we use? • How/when will the data be analysed? © NSW Department of Education August 2017

4. CONNECT WELLBEING AND SCHOOL EXCELLENCE Excellence in wellbeing The school has in place a comprehensive and inclusive framework to support the cognitive, emotional, social, physical and spiritual wellbeing of students which measurably improves individual and collective wellbeing Page 15 of Education © NSW Department Elements of Wellbeing • Teaching and Learning • Behaviour, discipline and character education • Learning and Support • Professional Practice • Effective Leadership and School Planning. 5 November 2020

ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN WELLBEING The school has a comprehensive and integrated strategy in place to support the cognitive, emotional, social, physical, and spiritual wellbeing of students in a context of quality teaching and learning. Students, teachers and staff, and members of the wider school community have a shared understanding of the behaviours, attitudes and expectations that enhance wellbeing and lead to improved student outcomes. Individuals care for self, and contribute to the wellbeing of others and the wider community. © NSW Department of Education August 2017

ACHIEVING EXCELLENCE IN WELLBEING Effective leadership guides the development of a highly effective school. The resources and expertise of the system at every level are targeted to meet the wellbeing needs of all students. Quality teaching and effective professional practice are evident in every learning environment. Teaching and learning occurs in environments that celebrate difference and diversity and recognise, respect and respond to identity and cultural background. © NSW Department of Education August 2017

FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT WELLBEING The Wellbeing Self-assessment Tool © NSW Department of Education Your school’s key learning and wellbeing contacts