{"id":5481,"date":"2025-03-13T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T14:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/promoting-mental-health-in-the-classroom-the-best-strategies-for-teachers-and-school-staff.html"},"modified":"2026-10-04T14:53:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:53:51","slug":"promoting-mental-health-in-the-classroom-the-best-strategies-for-teachers-and-school-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/blog\/promoting-mental-health-in-the-classroom-the-best-strategies-for-teachers-and-school-staff","title":{"rendered":"Promoting mental health in the classroom the best strategies for teachers and school staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\">\n<div class=\"blog-content\">\n<div class=\"paragraph\">In this current society stress plays a big role in our daily life, especially in students life. Taking care of our mental health is crucial, because it impacts students\u2019 learning abilities, social interactions, academic success and an overall their life quality.<br \/>\u200b<br \/>The new edition of the course \u201c<strong>Promoting Students\u2019 Well-Being and Mental Health in school: strategies for teachers and school staff<\/strong>\u201d took place in <strong>Palermo<\/strong> from <strong>18\/05\/2025<\/strong> to <strong>24\/05\/2025<\/strong>. The participants came from all across Europe, with Victoria and Anna from <strong>Hedda Wisingskolan<\/strong> along with Nina and Karolina from <strong>Sofiedalskolan<\/strong> in Sweden, Florbela and Paula from <strong>Escola Secund\u00e1ria Jos\u00e9 Saramago \u2013 Mafra<\/strong> and Ana from <strong>Agrupamento de Escola S\u00e3o Bruno<\/strong> in Portugal, Anne and Lydia from <strong>Coll\u00e8ge Aim\u00e9 C\u00e9saire de Basse-Pointe<\/strong> along with Nathalie, Lawrence and Oph\u00e9lie from <strong>Coll\u00e8ge Gerard Philipe<\/strong> in France, Martina <strong>from St\u00e4dtisches Bertolt-Brecht-Gymnasium M\u00fcnchen<\/strong> in Germany and Luk\u00e1\u0161 from <strong>Z\u0160 Kubransk\u00e1 80, 911 01 Tren\u010d\u00edn<\/strong> in Slovakia.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"imageGallery\" id=\"677998793541467917-gallery\" style=\"line-height: 0px; padding: 0; margin: 0\">\n<div id=\"677998793541467917-imageContainer0\" style=\"float:left;width:49.95%;margin:0;\">\n<div id=\"677998793541467917-insideImageContainer0\" style=\"position:relative;margin:5px;\">\n<div class=\"galleryImageHolder\" style=\"position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;\">\n<div class=\"galleryInnerImageHolder\"><a href=\"..\/uploads\/6\/5\/6\/3\/65630323\/img-20250519-091625_orig.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[gallery677998793541467917]\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"677998793541467917-imageContainer1\" style=\"float:left;width:49.95%;margin:0;\">\n<div id=\"677998793541467917-insideImageContainer1\" style=\"position:relative;margin:5px;\">\n<div class=\"galleryImageHolder\" style=\"position:relative; width:100%; padding:0 0 75%;overflow:hidden;\">\n<div class=\"galleryInnerImageHolder\"><a href=\"..\/uploads\/6\/5\/6\/3\/65630323\/img-1158_orig.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox[gallery677998793541467917]\"><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"display: block; clear: both; height: 0px; overflow: hidden;\"><\/span>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"height: 20px; overflow: hidden;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">We started the course with a brainstorming the concepts of <strong>mental health and mental well-being<\/strong> and participants had the chance to exchange and share their favorite practices and situations in their schools.<\/p>\n<p>To continue, we moved to the <strong>development stages of Erikson<\/strong> and challenges, along with some protective and risk factors. Through practical activities, participants had the chance to learn about the conflict between conflict between psychological needs and social demands.\u00a0These stages span from infancy to old age, and successful resolution of each crisis leads to the development of specific psychological strengths.\u00a0<br \/>\u200b<br \/>Another important topic was emotions. Indeed, on Wednesday participants learned about <strong>emotional intelligence<\/strong> and delved into it with a teacher-student perspective, sharing their main issues at their schools and strategies to promote it.\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-none\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\"> <a>  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">Moreover, we talked about smart goals and empathy, followed by a lesson about <strong>bullying awareness<\/strong> and <strong>prevention<\/strong>, since this is a global issue that directly affects all students\u2019 mental health. To prevent bullying behaviors it is vital to foster a <strong>positive classroom environment<\/strong>. All of the activities were carried on with non formal and creative activities.<br \/>\u200b<br \/>Last but not least, we went to Villa Trabia for an <strong>outdoor education<\/strong> class were participants practiced <strong>mindfulness activities<\/strong> such as the mindful circle, map of sound, sensitivity list and so on. At the end of the week, participants went home with a bag full of best practices and ideas to share in their schools!\u00a0<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"wsite-image wsite-image-border-none\" style=\"padding-top:10px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-left:0;margin-right:0;text-align:center\"> <a>  <\/a> <\/p>\n<div style=\"display:block;font-size:90%\"><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph\">Discover more about this course <a href=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/mental-health\">here<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this current society stress plays a big role in our daily life, especially in students life. Taking care of our mental health is crucial, because it impacts students\u2019 learning abilities, social interactions, academic success and an overall their life quality.\u200bThe new edition of the course \u201cPromoting Students\u2019 Well-Being and Mental Health in school: strategies&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/blog\/promoting-mental-health-in-the-classroom-the-best-strategies-for-teachers-and-school-staff\" rel=\"bookmark\">Weiterlesen &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Promoting mental health in the classroom the best strategies for teachers and school staff<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","neve_meta_reading_time":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12262,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5481\/revisions\/12262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erasmustrainingcourses.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}