Pedagogical training in spring 2023
Aalto University offers pedagogical courses to support pedagogical skills of faculty members.
According to several studies, the wellbeing of the teacher and the students are inextricably linked. Teaching and learning are not separate things - rarely one exists without the other. The essence of working as a teacher is about daily encounters with students and other teachers. A teacher's wellbeing has effects on the quality of the teachers' work as well as support to student wellbeing. And vice versa. Teaching, where students feel like they are part of it and the dialog is open and two-way, can support the wellbeing of students.
An individual who is doing well, is better able to regulate stress, and more likely able to recognize their own values and ways of thinking. They are also likely to take action in these issues, and hence support the wellbeing of their social environment. In teaching, this happens, e.g., through positive incentives, empowering students and through supporting experimentation and participation.
Instead of consentrating on suppporting individual wellbeing only, we need to think of community wellbeing. Multidimensional understading of wellbeing enables different lifestyles, empowers and supports agency. When social and structural challenges are solved in the community, they do not become individual challenges.
The Wellbeing in Teaching Toolbox is produced by Aalto Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto HR and Aalto Learning Services.
Aalto University offers pedagogical courses to support pedagogical skills of faculty members.