Although to date, the most valuable resources I’ve encountered have been conversations with my peers and colleagues within my district, a lot of these resources are the backbone behind my understanding of mental wellness. These resources have allowed me to practice positive strategies in my classroom to allow my students and myself to be mindful of our own feelings and take control of our own learning.

The conversations I’ve encountered with colleagues in my practicum school have opened my eyes to a wide variety of resources and strategies to assist students in the classroom and outside of the classroom. These conversations have taken place with my SA, our Youth Worker, our Administration, my FA, my peers, my family, and my Instructors.

Goldie Hawn. (2015). The Hawn Foundation: MindUp. Retrived from: http://thehawnfoundation.org/about-us/

The resource is about helping children’s mental health and well-being through instruction in the classroom. The MindUp program involves social emotion learning, behaviour control and engaging with learning in a productive way. This resource is helpful because it provides learning strategies to enhance student’s well-being.

Gorman, J C. (1999). Understanding Children’s Hearts and Minds: Emotional Functioning and Learning Disabilities. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 31(3), 72-77.

This articles discusses the challenges that children face when it comes to differences in the classroom and touches on social emotional learning. This resources expands and discusses “gifted” children as well as children with learning disabilities and how their well-being in the classroom is affected. This resource will be helpful to gain insight on well-being and challenges within the classroom setting.

Lavis, P. P. (2014). Resilience and Results: How Promoting Children’s Emotional and Mental Wellbeing Helps Improve Attainment. Education & Health, 32(1), 30-34.

This article discusses the notion of resilience and what students overcome to be resilient, not only in life, but in their studies in the classroom. This article is fairly current and discusses social emotional learning and the promotion of a healthy well-being in the classroom. This article give factual information which will help in my research and in my discussions with other educators.

McElhaney, S.J., National Health/Education, C., & And, O. (1993). Children’s Mental Health and Their Ability To Learn. Occasional Paper #8.

Although this resource is older than more current information, I think it is extremely rich in content about education and the ability to understand content delivered in the classroom. This article discusses children’s ability to understand, learn and engage in content based on their mental health. This resource is valuable to my inquiry question because it touches on the key information that I will be researching. It also discusses mental health and our ability as educators to assist our students.

School District 43. (2015). Social and Emotion Learning. Retrived from: https://www.sd43.bc.ca/Programs/SocialResponsibilty/Pages/SocialandEmotionalLearning.aspx

This website focus’ on social emotion learning, as well as provides a lot of resources around social emotion learning in the classroom. This website is provided by School District 43, Coquitlam, and compiles a list of both in class and at home tips to support social emotional learning. This resource is useful because I am doing my practicum in Coquitlam and has links that can provide direct assistant to my question within the district.