Teacher PD

Berry Street Education Model strategies

The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) provides strategies for teaching and learning that enable teachers to increase engagement of students with complex, unmet learning needs and to successfully improve all students’:

• self-regulation
• relationships
• wellbeing
• growth
• academic achievement.

Pedagogical strategies incorporate:

• trauma-informed teaching
• positive education
• wellbeing practices.

Last Friday our staff began the first day of our professional learning around the Berry Street Education Model. Our focus for the day was on 'Body'.  We looked at the effects of trauma on children's learning and focused on teaching children self-regulation. Some of the staff takeaways were: using learning circles to gauge students' readiness to learn, emotional regulation, the power of starting the day with positive comments, and utilising brain breaks in a classroom. Overall the staff considered the day an excellent learning opportunity and have already started embedding some of the practices. We are all looking forward to the second day in Term 2.