Here are a couple more PRIME instructional strategies for your wellness teaching toolkit>
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Wellness Partners – How about introducing the term “wellness partnering” (i.e., coaching) as a technique that students can apply to support each other using their knowledge of character strengths? In applying this strategy, students will need lots of time and practice with their strengths of Emotional and Social IntelligenceĀ to be helpful partners. Active listening lessons can be a good starting place to help students see themselves as coaches. As you design and implement this strategy, one helpful approach can be the act of students working together to write wellness prescriptions for in-the-moment responsive needs and a wellness plan to be proactive in preparation for upcoming events.
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Wellness Prescription Writing – Your students probably don’t know what a doctor’s prescription pad is, so the first step will be to teach them what it is. The next step for classroom integration is to develop ways to have students write wellness prescriptions for themselves and the class as a whole when they see a need. You can print out your class-designed wellness prescription pad that can be as simple as just having “Wellness Prescription” at the top, or you can build in some scaffolding with PERMAH and/or Character Strengths listed with checkboxes that need to be applied. Prescription writing can be a very “sticky” tool/idea in your student’s minds as they, in time, can call out responsively to in-the-moment class events to state, “we need to write a wellness prescription for this!”.
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