All aspects of wellness should be incorporated throughout the school: Physical, Emotional, Intellectual, Community/Service.
Supportive personnel in a safe and drug-free environment has a very large effect on Indigenous students’ school success.
- BALANCE – How are the respective aspects of the wellness wheel incorporated into your class?
- CONNECTION TO LAND – What opportunities do students have to connect their learning to the land around them? How is a student’s land base/homelands incorporated into your class?
- KINESTHETIC LEARNING – What opportunities do students have to physically engage in learning in your class? How often can they engage learning through movement?
- WHOLE SELF – What opportunities do students have to engage in all parts of themselves in your class? Do they feel your class is a safe space?
- How do I ‘metacognitively’ help students to think about thinking to reflect on reflection?
- Do I provide opportunities for physical wellness, emotional wellness, and service in my classroom?
- Do I understand how these elements connect to my students wellbeing on the whole and also in my class?
- Do my students leave the 4 walls of my classroom?
- Do we go outside?
- EXERCISE – What is your current exercise routine? Do you have one? Does it fit into your daily life?
- NUTRITION – How do you feel about your food/drink intake? Is it healthy? How do you know?
- HEALTH + PERSONAL CARE – Are you regularly seeing your doctor? Dentist? Optometrist? Are you getting enough sleep? Are you avoiding drugs/alcohol/tobacco/harmful substances?