Our next meeting will take place on Thursday March 10th 2016.
Venue: Langton's Kilkenny (Refreshments Served)
Time: 3pm
Guest Speaker 1: Professor Aidan Mulqueen, Vice-President of Maynooth University.
Guest Speaker 1: Professor Aidan Mulqueen, Vice-President of Maynooth University.
“We need
to get away from this sense that points are related to quality. Points are
related to nothing but demand and supply and it’s a real shame if institutions,
including my own, feel they should reduce the supply to make the points higher
in order that it looks like the course is better; the course is no different.”
Guest Speaker 2: Feidhlim Ó Seasnáin, The Super Generation.
Title: Ways to Wellbeing - Presentation on Resource Materials followed by Q&A.
"Mental health and well-being of our young people is critical
to success in school and life."
(Well-Being in Schools Guidelines, 2013,
Department of Education and Skills)
The Super Generation, Ireland's premier organisation in
helping young people in learning and leadership, through our seminars and
training have developed a new well-being programme for senior cycle students
entitled The Ways to Well-Being.
Recent research has shown that school-based programmes can
have positive effects for students in terms of:
· Behaviour and self-control
· Social and emotional skills
· Ability to learn and achieve academically
· Problem solving in social settings.
(Well-Being: Promoting Mental Health in
Schools, Oireachtas Report 2012)
The Ways to Well-Being train the trainer programme equips
teachers with the skills required to deliver a well-being programme to senior
cycle students and is accompanied by a teacher resource pack and student
workbook with over 100 hours of resource material.
