The healthy school

CULTURE & SOCIETY

by THE OLBIOS TEAM

Geelong Grammar Schools have been implementing the principles of Positive Education since 2008, when they had Professor Martin Seligman live with them for six months and train staff in the tenets of Positive Psychology.  The School now has a robust Model for Positive Education which has the central aim of promoting wellbeing and a desired outcome of enabling students and staff to flourish.  The Model consists of six related domains – Positive Relationships, Positive Emotions, Positive Health, Positive Engagement, Positive Accomplishment and Positive Purpose.  The six domains are underpinned by the important field of Character Strengths.  Through their daily contact with young people many teachers see the need for schools to provide the knowledge and skills to enable young people to flourish and develop intellectually and morally. Geelong Grammar School recognises the need to realign the purpose of education with the complex adaptive needs of the 21st century and is taking a lead role in emphasizing skills for wellbeing as an appropriate goal of education as well as an enabler for academic success. They also aim to foster engagement amongst our students, encourage them to achieve and, ultimately, equip them with the qualities to enable them to fulfil their life purpose. Geelong Grammar School_homepage Website: https://www.ggs.vic.edu.au/ Positive education, the details

 

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