Curriculum- Teaching and Learning
Upwey South Primary School
School Wide Teaching and Learning
In each edition of our school newsletter, we share with our community an insight into the curriculum being taught within our classrooms. This reflects our school's strong focus upon continuous improvement.
Each edition covers a different area of the curriculum, and is supported by our school-wide approaches to teaching and learning.
In this edition we focus upon providing you an overview of what has been occurring across our English curriculum.
What is the Berry Street Education Model (BSEM)?
The BSEM is a trauma-informed evidence-based approach to promoting schools who deliver a curriculum with a joint focus upon "learning and wellbeing". This focus is reflected in the Department of Education and Training (DET) new Framework For Student Outcomes 2.0 (FISO 2.0):
At Upwey South Primary School, the BSEM forms part of our overall framework to address student learning and wellbeing, which also encompasses:
- School Wide Positive Behaviour for Learning (SWPBL)
- Respectful Relationships
- Let's TALK
The BSEM can be summarized as:
The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) provides strategies for teaching and learning that enables teachers to increase engagement of students with complex, unmet learning needs and to successfully improve all students’ self-regulation, relationships, wellbeing, growth and academic achievement. Our pedagogical strategies incorporate trauma-informed teaching, positive education, and wellbeing practices.
(source: https://www.berrystreet.org.au/learning-and-resources/berry-street-education-model )
Building blocks to achieve academic and personal growth
The five domains of the Berry Street Education Model correspond with child-development capacities that each student must grow in order to be ‘ready to learn’. When considering how to best meet the needs of students, we focus on building self-regulatory ability, relational capacity and then nurture wellbeing and willingness to engage in learning.
The five domains are:
- Body
Increasing students’ capacity for physical and emotional regulation of the stress response, de-escalation and focus.
- Relationship
Nurturing on-task learning through relational classroom management strategies.
- Stamina
Creating a culture of academic persistence by nurturing resilience, emotional intelligence and a growth mindset.
- Engagement
Motivating students with strategies that increase their willingness to learn.
- Character
Harnessing a values and character strengths approach for learning and future pathways.
Working together, BSEM helps schools strengthen their whole-school approach to build consistency and predictability across all classrooms throughout the school.
Want to learn more?
If you are interested in learning more about BSEM, you can visit the following website:
https://www.berrystreet.org.au/
or watch the video below: