Building Students' Self-Awareness

Overview

Learn to address critical challenges in Australian education by developing students' self-awareness through this comprehensive professional development course. Explore compelling problems within the Australian educational landscape and discover how enhanced student self-awareness serves as a powerful solution. Examine current research on self-awareness and its connections to key educational topics, then assess fundamental concepts that impact self-awareness development and their practical classroom applications. Analyze existing self-awareness resources and learn to seamlessly integrate them into your established routines, lessons, and curriculum. Apply research-based strategies by implementing new classroom resources that effectively build students' self-awareness skills, ultimately creating more engaged and self-directed learners in your educational setting.

Syllabus

Articulate a compelling problem in Australian education and how building students' self-awareness can help us address the problem.
Describe the research on self-awareness and how it is connected to other important topics in the education landscape.
Assess the key ideas impacting self-awareness and how they may be leveraged in the classroom.
Analyse self-awareness resources and incorporate them into routines, lessons, or curriculum you have already established in your classroom or at your school.
Use a new resource in your classroom that reflects the research, content, and skills relevant to building students' self-awareness.