Course: Educator's Resources, Tile: 1: Building strengths, & resilience; staying connected

1: Building strengths, & resilience; staying connected

1: Building strengths, & resilience; staying connected
- Discovering children's strengths and working with their interests
- What is a strengths-based approach?
- Why do we need to identify strengths and use a strengths-based approach?
- Characteristics of strong families
- Identifying children's strengths and your own strengths
- Practical ways to work with children's strengths
- For defence and veteran families
- Understanding risk and resilience in defence families
- Resilience in defence families
- Building empathy, tolerance and respect
- How can educators build tolerance, empathy and respect in our children? Here are five practical tips for educators to create a better world one child at a time.
- Educator resources
- Cooking with young children
  
  Practical activities are a wonderful way to discover children's strengths.
- Woodwork with young children
  
  Practical activities are a wonderful way to discover children's strengths. Used with kind permission from Pete Morehouse.
- Belonging, Being & Becoming: The early years learning framework for Australia
  
  Provides educators with an additional strengths based learning framework
- Strength-based approach: A guide to writing Transition Learning and Development Statements
  
  Provides educators with information on strengths based transition.
- Teaching activities in Children's Resources
  To accompany this module, please use the following resources from Children's Resources:
  1. Explore the puppet activities related to the books. Weave these activities into your activities relating to strengths as mentioned in the articles above.
  2. Explore the Project Books related to the eBooks. These will assist you to bring out children's strengths.
- Resources for parents and educators
  There is some good research-based information in these online articles. There will also be many tips that are relevant for educators.
- Thinking and learning strengths in children with autism spectrum disorder (3-8 years)
  
  Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are often strong in areas like visual and rule-based thinking or thinking focused on particular interests.
- Embracing your autistic child's strengths
  
  In this episode of Raising Learners, I CAN Network’s Chris Varney talks with Professor Julie Green, Executive Director of raisingchildren.net.au, about how parents can help their autistic children handle change.
- Praise, encouragement and rewards (1-18 years)
  
  Sometimes it’s easier to notice difficult behaviours than positive behaviours. But look for the times when your child is behaving in positive ways, and praise your child’s behaviour. Your child will feel good, and focusing on positive things will help you feel good too.
- Positive attention and your child (1-11 years)
  
  Positive attention is when you respond to your child with warmth and interest. Positive attention helps your child feel secure and valued, and is important for your child’s self-image and development.
- Encouraging positive behaviour (1-8 years)
  
  Try these practical, positive tips to encourage the behaviour you want in your child.
- Be you. A resource to support early learning educators
  
  Be You is the national mental health in education initiative delivered by Beyond Blue, in collaboration with Early Childhood Australia and headspace. Be You supports educators from early learning services and schools to develop a positive, inclusive and resilient learning community where every child, young person, educator and family can achieve their best possible mental health.
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