Webinar ReplayHow to Teach & Measure Student Wellbeing

With attention and effort, students can acquire mental skills to control their emotions and body (Siegel 2012). Self-regulation enables students to monitor and manage their own emotional responses (ACARA).

Schools want to be able to measure and improve wellbeing. However, assessment and impact evaluation is typically anecdotal or subjective and often based on the assumption that students are proficient in articulating the state of their own wellbeing already.

Life Skills Group has spent 12 years partnering with primary schools teaching and measuring wellbeing. Our experience has shown us the importance of first teaching students the true meaning of emotions or feelings, how to identify them and manage them, before starting to capture and track those feelings over time, reliably and accurately.

The foundations of self-awareness and self-regulation lay the groundwork for emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is an ability that encompasses how well we know and manage our own emotions, as well as how we recognise and apply ourselves to the emotions of others (Stepp). Emotion is a process that not only gives us the subjective sense of our feelings but also orients our attention and lets us have a felt sense of "This is important." (Seigel 2015).

In this webinar, recorded on 10 March 2021, CEO and Founder Nikki Bonus and Psychologist Sally Boardman highlight the proven best practices to use in primary schools to measure wellbeing and help students learn to identify and manage their emotions.