Supporting learning, behaviour and wellbeing
Evidence-based practical strategies for teachers, psychologists, other professionals, and parents/carers working with children in primary and junior secondary schools.
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Membership for individuals, schools, dioceses, regions or institutions working with children and parents in primary to junior secondary schools
Your membership benefits
- Comprehensive resource library: Access resources dedicated to enhancing the wellbeing, teaching, and learning of children and young adolescents. From disabilities and disorders to emotional regulation, challenging behaviours, and general childhood development.
- Strengthen student wellbeing: Enhance emotional development and learning with evidence-based resources, screening tools, and advice.
- Implement whole-school strategies for vulnerable children: Create a supportive school environment by adopting consistent approaches for vulnerable children and those with additional needs.
- Support for common challenges: Access packages of resources to help children deal with anxiety, friendship difficulties, giftedness, learning difficulties and other issues.
- Effective planning: Develop plans for behaviour management, individualised learning, transitions, and improving school attendance.
- Improve behaviour to enhance learning: Address disruptive and disengaged behaviours, from minor behaviour to serious misconduct.
- Conflict resolution: Master managing difficult meetings starting with the 'glad, sorry, sure' approach and discover useful tips for productive conversations with parents and caregivers.
- Wellbeing and support: Find advice and tips to promote personal wellbeing and offer support to your colleagues and children’s parents.
- Time and cost savings: Psychologists, benefit from significant time and cost savings when writing recommendations in reports by leveraging strategies described in our ebooklets and resources.
- Professional growth: Access professional reading materials to support your registration requirements.
Blogs
Peer support and autistic children
Around 1 in 70 Australians are currently diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder. [1] [2] In recent years heightened awareness and improved access to diagnosis may have contributed to an increase in identification rates.[3] For children, diagnosis often provides details about specific challenges, capabilities, and helpful strategies and supports. An understanding of a child’s challenges and
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Divorce, separation and parent alienation
Divorce and separation can bring profound emotional upheaval for some children. Responses to separation and divorce can vary according to the level of parental co-operation, along with each parent’s ability to protect and shield their children from any conflict. A child’s age, stage of development, feelings of belonging and safety, and their resilience will also
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Teacher wellbeing is essential in an age of life-threatening events
Currently, Australian teachers are working with children in classrooms shaped by an unprecedented number of local, national and global life-threatening events. These include climate change, bushfires, floods, earthquakes, cyclones, drought, wars, shootings, terrorism and pandemics—both now and into the future. Such events can challenge a child’s sense of safety, predictability and control. Excessive worry can
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Help avoid escalation to school can’t (school refusal)
School attendance in Australia has been declining over the last decade.[1] [2] As many as 5% of school-age children are believed to feel they can’t attend school. [3] Higher levels are evident amongst children with unmet learning and/or social-emotional needs and those experiencing anxiety and depression. In Australia, many people describe school refusal as ‘school
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