Learning through Covid-19: How to spend 5 meaningful minutes in your teaching practice to support wellbeing

Guest facilitator: Associate Professor Lydia Woodyatt
Chair: Anna Dawson, UTS Senior Health and Wellbeing Partner/Psychologist

What has COVID-19 taught us about wellbeing? How can we enhance our teaching practices to promote positive wellbeing? 

In this session we will:

• Explore how challenges with remote teaching can have an impact on student and staff wellbeing
• How small changes to our teaching practice can be used to help students develop their self-management skills for university and professional life (this also has a positive impact on staff due to the reciprocal relationship between staff and student wellbeing)

During this session we will start from a basic understanding of psychological needs underpinning wellbeing (https://www.ncsehe.edu.au/event/webinar-five-meaningful-minutes-lydia-woodyatt/), before spending the majority of the session focused on sharing teaching practices to support student’s wellbeing. The session will end on a self-reflection piece on how these 5 meaningful minutes can also benefit our personal wellbeing.

Assoc. Professor Lydia Woodyatt researches ways to increase wellbeing, engagement and motivation. She is a social psychologist and award winning teacher at Flinders University, where she applies psychological theory to develop curriculum embedded approaches to support student success and wellbeing. She chairs the Flinders Retention working group, the STARS Network for wellbeing in Higher Education, and is co-creator of online course The Psychology of Surviving and Thriving which develops wellbeing and self-management.