Transforming Teaching: Wellbeing and Professional Practice

Abstract

This book focuses on evidence-based approaches to teaching from a wellbeing lens. It addresses significant issues in wellbeing education in initial teacher education, teacher, and leaders’ wellbeing during, schooling disruption and in teaching more broadly through innovative multi-disciplinary research. This book addresses how to lead wellbeing within schools, and showcases a unique strategy adopted by an Australian university to integrate a wellbeing framework throughout initial teacher education preparation. It explores different evidence-based models of wellbeing education and focuses on the significance of culture and context. Readers can learn how teachers can integrate evidence-based wellbeing approaches to transform their professional practice and promote student flourishing and academic growth.