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PPE 310
Chloe A. Ventura
November 22, 2016

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January 2016
Social Health Presenting ideas on monthly social events to encourage team
building and understanding the importance of doing so

Material covered/Agenda:
-Start off by reading the article, Team Building and Collaboration: A Necessary
Combination LINK: https://www.edutopia.org/team-building-and-collaboration
-Walk around using anchor charts to brainstorm ideas about why team building is
important (taken from article)
-Talk about the connections made to the article and workplace
-Brainstorm ideas for social events that will encourage team building (team sport
after school, healthy night out to dinner, charity run, etc.)
-Create a monthly calendar for the social events. Include a minimum amount of
participation that must be met.

February 2016
Emotional Health - Employees will learn tips and helpful advice on managing
stress in the workplace in order to increase their emotional health.

Material covered/Agenda:
-Start off by reading the article, Building Mental and Emotional Health LINK:
http://www.helpguide.org/articles/emotional-health/improving-emotional-health.htm

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-Employees will practice listening to one another and supporting each other on an
issue they may be struggling with.
-Employees will talk about how they can implement these strategies on a daily
basis, especially in times of high stress.
-Employees will sign up for a stress free day out once a month (employee dinner,
spa day, day trip, yoga class etc.
-Employees will walk around the room and find a partner and create a plausible
schedule in which they ensure themselves 7-9 hours of sleep every night
-Group Share on ideas

March 2016
Physical Health- Employees will be educated and practice creating ideas of
how to implement physical health into their classrooms.

Material Covered/Agenda:
-Start the meeting off by reading the article, Physically Active Classrooms
LINK: http://whatworksforhealth.wisc.edu/program.php?t1=21&t2=12&t3=79&id=511
-Teachers will have a group discussion about the pros and cons of a physically
active classroom
-Teachers will share ideas of what has previously worked in their classroom
-Teachers will walk around and use anchor charts to come up with new ideas
-Teachers will try implementing these ideas into a portion of the meeting to see
how effective they can be.

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-Teachers will create a list to take with them to their classroom to start trying with
their children.
-Wrap up: Every teacher must do a physical activity or exercise before being
dismissed

April 2016
Spiritual Health- Teachers will be educated on increasing their spiritual
wellness in order to foster a more happy and healthy working environment.

Materials Covered/Agenda:
-Start the meeting by reading the article, Spiritual Wellness LINK:
https://wellness.ucr.edu/spiritual_wellness.html
-Teachers will come up with and talk about what they believe to be their own
sense of meaning and purpose.
-Teachers will group talk about what they can do to achieve these meanings and
purposes in life.
-Teachers will then learn about how they can incorporate this important activity
into their classroom with their students. (It is important for children to start learning their
purpose early)
-Wrap Up: Teachers will create a journal that they will use in their classroom to
jot down the life purposes that their students come up with so that they can do their best
to help them achieve their goals.

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May 2016
Nutritional Health- Teachers will learn about what it means to be and stay healthy.
Teachers will talk about nutrition in the school and classroom and what they can do
to maintain a healthy environment for themselves and their students.

Materials Covered/Agenda:
-Start off the meeting reading the article, Classroom Activities to Promote
Nutrition and Health LINK: http://www.teachhub.com/classroom-activities-promotenutrition-health
-Teachers will be served a delicious and nutritious breakfast (Orange juice, eggs,
and toast)
-Teachers will talk about ways they can help keep children eating healthy. They
may talk about asking parents for donations of healthy snacks for the classroom.
-Teachers will learn about what a balanced diet looks like. They will learn about
what food group should be included and how much.
-Teachers will learn how to create a food diary. They will learn the benefits for
doing this for themselves as well as having their students do it.
-Teachers will talk about creating food diaries for their students.
-Teachers will create a newsletter to go home to parents promoting and
encouraging a healthy diet for their children at school.
-Wrap Up: Teachers will create a balanced diet plan for one full day

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June 2016
Intellectual Health- Teachers will learn the definition of intellectual health. Teachers
will practice enhancing their intellectual health throughout the meeting and then be
expected to try the same exercise in their classroom.

Materials Covered/Agenda:
-Teachers will learn the definition of Intellectual health:
http://medicine.uams.edu/faculty/current-faculty/intellectual-wellness/
-Teachers will walk into a room filled with maker space tools and materials. They
will be expected to create something by the end of the meeting. (Stimulating intellectual
health)
-Teachers will be expected to talk about what they made , how and why. (Talk
through their thinking process)
-Teachers will then compare and contrast their learning process and thinking
process in their attempt of building their item.
-Teachers will be expected to implement a worker space into their classroom to
try the same exercise with their students.

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Reflection
The workplace that these meeting will take place in is an elementary school. The
meetings will be with all of the teachers and focus on their health and wellness in the
workplace as well as how they can pass these skills on to their students in the classroom.
Each month, the teachers will be learning about and looking at a different holistic
approach. Teaching can be a very stressful job for teachers. Working long hours, with
numerous kids to look after and having to lesson plan and implement everything they
need to on a daily basis is a lot of work and pressure. It is very common for teachers to
experience stress, especially if it is their first year teaching. If untreated, the stress can
lead to an unhealthy and unhappy lifestyle, which in turn could cause the teachers to quit
their job. Depending on the age of the student, stress can also rub off on them and affect
their learning and happiness in the classroom. The goal of these meetings is to avoid this
horrible idea, and to keep our teachers and students happy, healthy and successful. At the
end of the six months, teachers should have a good idea about each of the six holistic
approaches, how to implement them into their lives and their students lives, which will in
return reduce stress in the workplace and lead them through a happy and healthy career
and lifestyle.