Educating Students About Drug Use and Mental Health - Grade 12: Expectation 3

(HL3.03)

Demonstrate an ability to use skills to enhance their own mental health.

Bold text between orange lines is an excerpt from Grade 12 Open PPL40 Healthy Active Living Education Public Course Profile, Unit 3: Activity 3

Teaching/Learning Strategy 3:

The teacher provides the students with a four-day journal. The students complete journal entries and identify situations in their daily lives that enhanced their own mental health and how they demonstrated their ability to manage stressful situations. They are to provide details with respect to what the situation was, how they dealt with the situation, and upon reflection, additional strategies they may have used to create a positive outcome. Teachers evaluate the students' journal entries using a checklist.

Hot Tips for Teachers

If your students needs some help to guide their journal writing, the following questions may "kick start" their thinking:

Describe the situation.

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Describe what skill you used and explain its impact.

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What was the outcome of the situation?

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Was it what you wanted or would consider a positive outcome? Why or why not?

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What could you have done differently? What do you think the outcome would be like if you did this?

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What skills have you identified about yourself that work for you? What skills have you identified about yourself that you need to improve upon?

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Each student's journal will document different situations and responses as how people cope, are very personal. When reviewing journals, focus on the ability to analyze the situation, the ability to explain the outcome, the appropriateness of the response, and the ability to identify alternative or additional strategies to improve the outcome.

Daily Journal

Date:______________________________________

Today, ______________, was a ________________________ day.

A few things came up that I needed to deal with:

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So what did I do?

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I know what I did worked for me because, or I know what I did didn't work for me because: (choose one)

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Using my 20/20 hindsight vision, I might have done this instead:

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Educating Students About Drug Use and Mental Health - Grade 12: Expectation 3

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