BRiTE

BRiTE helps pre-service teachers build their awareness of the skills and practices that will help facilitate resilience in their teaching career. It contains 5 online interactive learning modules informed by an extensive review of the teacher literature and research. The modules address:

• Building resilience: What is resilience and why is it important for teachers? 
• Relationships: Building and maintaining relationships
• Taking initiative: Building a resilient classroom, reflection and ongoing learning;
• Emotions: Emotional awareness, management and optimism

Each module contains:

• a self-reflection quiz,
• information about skills and strategies
• tips, videos
• scenarios where skills can be applied 
• a ‘what do the experts say’ section (summarising latest research)
• connections to the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers at the graduate level.

The BRiTE modules are personalised, so users can:

• build their own toolkit,
• record their learning,
• ‘pin’ items for future reference 
• download their own personal plan

BRiTE is a two-year project funded by the Office of Learning and Teaching, Australia, and builds on the previous project, Keeping Cool (Mansfield, Price, McConney, Beltman, Pellicionne & Wosnitza, 2012).

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