Exploring mental health in the classroom
The National Film Board’s educational playlist of films on mental health can facilitate discussion with students and enhance your own professional and personal development.
Category: Mental health
All of society benefits when our students’ mental health is supported early in life
Heather Smith reflects on the recent Canadian Forum on Public Education, her 33-year career as a teacher and how we can best support the mental health and wellness of students and teachers.
Liberal education – Looking at the new federal government through teachers’ eyes
This article, originally published in The Alberta Teachers’ Association “ATA News”, examines the federal Liberal election platform and outlines the new government’s stand on some of the issues that matter to teachers.
Green Party of Canada
Teachers are usually the first to know. A hungry child that can’t focus on their lesson plan. A student struggling with depression, falling through the cracks in our mental health care system. Teachers know that poverty and mental illness are powerful forces in Canadian life because they see their effects in the classroom every day.
How can the teacher voice be heard in the 2015 federal election?
Child poverty and child and youth mental health were noted as the two top priorities for teacher advocacy in the upcoming federal election by over 5,000 teachers in a CTF survey. How can teachers engage in a dialogue with federal election candidates on these issues?
Walking the talk – Reducing the stigma of mental illness in the elementary classroom
Too often, teachers are left to their own device on how to help children with a wide range of learning disabilities and mental health issues. Ron Muller, member of CTF’s Advisory Committee on Diversity and Human Rights, describes his own experience in starting “courageous” conversations with his students in the classroom about mental health.
