Berry Street Education Model
Over a two year period all teaching and Education Support staff at Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå have been engaging in the Berry Street Education Model. The decision to engage with the model came about in response to the impact of COVID-19, and the model’s alignment with the philosophy of Â鶹´«Ã½¸ßÇå.
The model is an educator-designed and evidence-led framework that empowers schools to create classrooms where every student is ready to learn and able to thrive.
The model helps schools to help students by:
- understanding the impacts of trauma on child development and the ability to learn
- creating a supportive and trauma-informed positive education classroom
- bolstering student-teacher relationships
- instilling strengths-based practices across the school.
The course is arranged around the five Berry Street Education Model domains:
- Body – How to help your students to regulate their stress response, de-escalate in school and classroom contexts and provide strategies for increased focus.
- Relationship – Positive relational classroom management strategies that promote on-task learning
- Stamina – How to create a culture of academic persistence in your classroom by nurturing student resilience, emotional intelligence and a growth mindset.
- Engagement – How to motivate students with strategies that increase their willingness to learn
- Character – How to harness our values and character strengths approach for effective learning and for future pathways.
The five domains correspond with child-development capacities that each student must grow in order to be ‘ready to learn’. When considering how to best meet the needs of students, we focus on building self-regulatory ability and relational capacity, and then nurture wellbeing and willingness to engage in learning.
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