Teaching Mindfulness to Children
Cool+Early LearningSocialMental HealthMindfulness and Meditation
Go to
Course Summary
Course Content
Introduction
01.
About this course
02.
Set a learning goal
Transforming a Future
03.
A place for play and curiosity
Benefits of Mindfulness
04.
Meet Carolyn Shurey
05.
What is mindfulness?
06.
Health and wellbeing benefits
07.
Educational benefits
08.
How mindfulness helps you
09.
Quick check-in
How to Teach Mindfulness
10.
Using the five senses and nature
11.
About the activities
12.
Smiling on the Inside
13.
Super senses
14.
Mindful Explorers
15.
Embedding into daily routines
16.
Quick check-in
Your Teaching
17.
Teaching tips
18.
Cool lesson plans
Reflection
19.
Reflection
20.
Taxonomy of learning
21.
Suggestions for collaboration
22.
Congratulations
Course Writers
Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech startup and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!
Carolyn Shurey features in videos in this course. Carolyn has extensive experience teaching in the outdoors and connecting people with nature. In her role as a Learning Facilitator at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Carolyn specialises in the development and facilitation of Health and Well Being in Nature programs. She is a qualified and experienced yoga and meditation teacher and is passionate about making mindfulness and nature accessible for all.