
Teach Mindfulness To Secondary Students
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Course Content

Introduction
Introduction
Set some learning goals

Benefits of Mindfulness
Meet Carolyn Shurey
What is mindfulness?
Health and wellbeing benefits
Educational benefits
Focusing our attention
How mindfulness helps you

How to Teach Mindfulness
Using the five senses and nature
About the activities
Mindful standing
Sound activity
Our seasons
Mindfulness in the curriculum

Your Teaching
Teaching tips
Cool lesson plans

Reflection
Reflection
Taxonomy of learning
Suggestions for collaboration
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)!

Interviews with Carolyn Shurey
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.