During the Covid-19 pandemic emerging evidence showed the toll that the pandemic was having on the mental health of children (Anna Freud, 2020). We developed a module for our primary student teachers in south-west London on supporting wellbeing through the expressive arts. We wanted to explore how to support children and student teacher wellbeing and how the two are linked.
We could not have foreseen how artificial intelligence (AI) would develop as the module was being delivered. We quickly realised, however, that we were mitigating against the risk of AI use, in both the design of the module and the method of assessment.
Module aims:
- support student subject knowledge and teaching confidence in the expressive arts
- build knowledge and understanding of pupil wellbeing
- support students with strategies for their own wellbeing.
