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An award-winning positive education approach to wellbeing, resilience, and social-emotional learning (SEL).

 

Completely updated and revised, Bounce Back! consists of resources for a whole-school program for Years 1-8.

Written by well-known Australian educators, psychologists and best-selling authors, Helen McGrath and Toni Noble, Bounce Back! provides practical strategies to improve student wellbeing and help students cope with the complexity of everyday life.

Bounce Back! is a whole school program from Year 1 to Year 8 which provides students the skills to ‘bounce back’ when they experience sadness, difficulties, frustrations and challenging times.

A whole-school, teacher-led, student-centred approach

Each level contains an updated handbook exploring the most recent evidence-based research that underpins Bounce Back! plus ten substantially revised curriculum units, all with updated topics, teaching strategies and resources:

 

  • Core values
  • Social values - all new
  • People bounce back
  • Courage
  • Looking on the bright side
  • Emotions
  • Relationships
  • Humour
  • Being safe
  • Success

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Each curriculum unit uses children’s literature, thinking tools and cooperative learning strategies plus a variety of cross-curricular classroom activities to help students:

 

  • develop positive and prosocial values, including those related to ethical and intercultural understanding
  • develop self-awareness, social awareness and social skills
  • develop self-management strategies for coping and bouncing back
  • think optimistically and look on the bright side
  • boost positive emotions and manage negative emotions
  • find courage in everyday life as well as in difficult circumstances
  • develop skills for countering bullying
  • use humour as a coping tool
  • develop strengths, skills and attitudes for being successful.

Also new to this edition:

 

  • increased support for teacher wellbeing and embedding practices
  • stronger positive education
  • more suggestions for differentiation and program implementation.

Digital resources

The 3rd Edition includes Reader+ the next generation eBook which is also available as a standalone purchase.

 

Reader+ contains digital resources, featuring:

 

  • an additional Science curriculum unit
  • new curriculum correlation charts
  • interactive tools, games and activities
  • Blackline Masters
  • tools for measuring wellbeing and resilience
  • revised resources lists
  • key information for families.


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Have you heard of HITS and HOTS?

Get your students to think critically with HITS and HOTS, also co-authored by Helen McGrath and Toni Noble.

 

HITS and HOTS can work together with Bounce Back to approach wellbeing, resilience and social-emotional learning.

 

It has step-by-step instructions for over 50 high-impact teaching strategies, higher order thinking strategies, educational games and quizzes.

 

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