NOTE CHANGE OF DATE:  Tuesday, 26th September 2017

Guest Speakers:

• Colette Savage: Integrating Mindfulness in your School
• Brendan McGrath: Managing IT  systems effectively in our Schools
• Pat Hanrahan: Practical resources for teaching Mathematics
• Michael Kelly: The Grow It Yourself (GIY) Centre as a resource for schools

You may book a place for catering purposes:  online www.wtc.ie      phone  051 311000     email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

HEALTH PROMOTING SCHOOL INFORMATION SESSION

Tips and techniques for creating the mindful environment most supportive for children wellbeing and focus.

Everyone benefits from being more alert yet calm and focused. Children thrive in a mindful environment because they feel safe, secure and more balanced. The training will enable you to create a mindful classroom and integrate short mindful practices for optimum benefit both yourself and the pupils. It introduces a much needed balance to the active brain while enabling children to perform at their optimum. For the teacher it enables you yourself to create short 1 or 2 minute pauses in the day to recharge and focus.

This introductory course will cover the following:

Mindfulness: What are you looking for? Get under the skin of what mindfulness offers and how to integrate it into your classroom. Create your personal mindfulness practice to utilise in your classroom. Understand a little of the neuroscience behind it.

This presentation will address the areas of: 

• Identifying the planning requirements for Special Education Teachers
• Opening and maintaining Student Support Files
• Employing diagnostic tests and other means to gather information to develop meaningful Individual Education Plans (IEPs)
• The process, the development and the presentation of an IEP
•  The preparation of fortnightly plans and timetables