With the teaching of values and student wellbeing a curriculum requirement in the classroom, there is a great need for teachers to communicate with each other to share strategies and ideas about how to best teach these skills and values. Bouncing ideas between educators, in the convenience of an online forum, can serve to inspire us and increase our creativity and desire to teach these essential life skills.

Let’s begin our online discussions in general terms about the necessity of teaching values and wellbeing in the classroom. Please join in and share your insights, wisdom and creativity on this subject. We need to support each other as we teach important life skills to Australia’s future generations!

What are some practical ways we can incorporate wellbeing programs and values education into the average school day?

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Julienne Laidlaw is an author, consultant and expert on teacher resource material, especially in the areas of wellbeing and values education. She has 20 years of classroom experience, and has taught students from Kindergarten to Year 7.

Julienne has contributed to many wellbeing and social education school programs including Active Kidz, Behind the News magazine and an indigenous reconciliation project. She also wrote the teacher’s resource material for V-Kids, a contemporary values education series for middle to upper primary students. Please see our website for more information on some of these products.

Most recently, Julienne was a series consultant for Whole Child and wrote all the activities for the Poster Talk Packs and the upper primary fiction title, Paddling in Circles. She is also our blog facilitator and has kindly offered to prepare regular discussion questions for primary teachers of wellbeing programs.