School Mental Health Ontario's 'Practical resources to support student mental health during COVID-19'
Check out SMHO's Student Mental Health Action Kit to access the lesson plans for early years through to secondary, including their new virtual field trip on stress management and coping, exploring the power of visualization strategies. Visualization can help students (and us!) settle our minds by temporarily shifting focus away from worries and concerns.
Do you have a moment now? Why not take a break and enjoy this forest visualization? It’s one of the consolidation activities featured in the virtual field trip lessons. These lessons were created in partnership with Ophea.
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New resources from SMHO:
Do you find that sometimes it helps to walk away from a task when you’re feeling frustrated, do something you enjoy, and then come back to the task? Like us, when students are feeling unsettled or are experiencing difficult emotions, they may not be ready to learn or focus. It’s okay to suggest they try focusing their attention on something else and then return to the school task once they are ready.
Their latest stress management and coping virtual field trip is all about distraction strategies. Go to Student Mental Health Action Kit to access the lesson plans for early years through to secondary. You can also access the previous three lessons:
· Breathing Strategies
· Muscle relaxation strategies
· Visualization