Mindfulness: A curriculum and set of printable resources to enable implementation of Mindfulness

Designed for:

• Tutors/Lecturers/Instructors/Session Leaders who want to develop mindfulness in their older teenage/adult students.

Why Is It Useful?

• See ‘Mind Over Matter: A New Mindfulness Curriculum’ pdf handout

Learning Aims:

• To foster a culture of mindfulness in the classroom setting.
• To empower students to take control of their mind and emotions.
• To engender student respect for self & others.
• To raise awareness of issues encountered in everyday life & ways to deal with these positively.
• To promote awareness of world crisis issues such as climate change and cruelty to animals.

What’s Included:

• Educator’s Scheme of Work showing learning outcomes for each weekly Mindfulness topic.
• Student’s Pictorial Scheme of Work showing them what the topics they will be covering each week - this should be used as a class recap / introduction for topics. It needs to be printed & bound (A3 colour preferably) and given to each student.
• A Set of Mindfulness Posters showing each of the 34 topics to be covered. Each weekly topic should be printed in colour, laminated and put up at the front of the classroom as a prompt.
• A Set of Journal Worksheets. Again, these need to be printed in colour, bound and distributed to each student as a working journal enabling them to reflect on each topic as it covered.
• A Term of Mindfulness Lesson Plans (covering the first 13 weeks of the academic year following the SoW)

Re: The included Mindfulness lesson plans (covers the first 13 weeks just to get you started)- they are targeted at E3/L1 learners. The focus age is 16-18 year young people with SEBD but could be taught to older high school students. The lesson plans included provide ideas on how you could implement the topics mindfully… but feel free to deviate from this and incorporate your own ideas/approaches with different resources (and please contact me if something in particular has worked really well) :)

Learning objectives, differentiation, practical tips, etc are all stated on the lesson plans. The only thing is, I have incorporated into the lesson plans some powerpoint slideshows, worksheets and other learning materials that i have not necessarily produced myself (and therefore do not own the right to freely distribute). Therefore I cannot upload the titles/names of the materials and the websites where they can be downloaded from, ensuring authors are credited & reviewed appropriately for their hard work. Still, the plans included willgive you a template to go off as to how to deliver these mindfulness topics. Hope they are helpful! Thanks, SGH