Providing teachers with the materials needed to teach pupils positive thinking, this book may make for particularly interesting reading for professionals with pastoral responsibilities.
Using positive psychology to enhance student achievement: a schools-based programme for character education
Synopsis
Rae and MacConville argue that the connection between education and happiness or ‘positivethinking’ is recognised to be mutually reinforcing; education helps pupils to be happy and happy pupils gain more from education.Their book includes an introduction to positive psychology; a PowerPoint presentation that can be used directly to introduce the concept to staff; and resources to help support the implementation of the character education programme.
The activities they set out for teachers were designed to provide a creative and engaging way of enabling pupils to discover their strengths, both in terms of their cognitive abilities and virtues.
They set out a system for introducing pupils to the key insights of positive psychology through easy-to-deliver sessions, including the importance of being connected to others; character training and metacognitive strategies; and developing the skills essential for building optimism and resilience.