mental health Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/mental-health/ Pushing The Edge for Critical Thinking in Education Mon, 23 Dec 2024 22:09:07 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://pushingtheedge.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/cropped-PTE-512x512-32x32.png mental health Archives - Pushing The Edge https://pushingtheedge.org/tags/mental-health/ 32 32 Expanding Students’ Ideas About Race, Religion and the Western Suburbs with Amra Pajalic https://pushingtheedge.org/expanding-students-ideas-about-race-religion-and-the-western-suburbs/ Tue, 04 Sep 2018 09:00:55 +0000 https://pushingtheedge.org/?p=11714 In Episode 48,  we explore teaching in a western suburbs’ school where students face bigotry and negative stereotyping based on their race, religious beliefs, and the suburbs they live in. Episode 48 CLICK PLAY to listen to Amra Pajalic Episode Guest Amra Pajalic is a secondary school teacher and young adult novelist who teaches in the western suburbs of Melbourne, Australia. Amra went to the same school she now teaches in. Quick Guide Amra introduces herself The stereotypes associated with the western suburbs in Melbourne, Australia Amra’s connection with her students The need to escape and reinvent oneself Challenging the stereotypes,

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]]> Mental Health and the Weight of Activism https://pushingtheedge.org/mental-health/ https://pushingtheedge.org/mental-health/#comments Wed, 12 Oct 2016 05:00:42 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=9389 Inspired by the many educators who've courageously shared the challenges they've faced on the mental health front, I offer one more tale - my own.

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]]> https://pushingtheedge.org/mental-health/feed/ 4 Building a Safe and Supportive Classroom for English Language Learners https://pushingtheedge.org/safe-and-supportive-classroom/ https://pushingtheedge.org/safe-and-supportive-classroom/#comments Wed, 23 Sep 2015 06:45:49 +0000 http://167.99.27.222/?p=8272 It was a teaching strategy that had an impact I never expected. Here’s how I used a wiki discussion board to build a safe and supportive classroom for my students. It was a teaching strategy that I never expected to have the impact that it did. A strategy that highlighted the immense value of tapping into our students’ worlds – drawing on their experiences and expertise. I was teaching an mid to upper level English Language Learner (ELL) class. All were relatively new arrivals to Australia so there was much for them to navigate. Acutely aware of the challenges to

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