Circulus Institute and the Sea Change Podcast, Ellen provides consulting, program design, and professional development for international schools developing Social and Emotional Learning, mentoring, advisory, wellbeing, and transitions programs. She is currently based in New York City and San Francisco.
HOW CAN SCHOOLS IMPROVE THEIR TRANSITION-CARE?
In the webinar the two experts presented their independent research project.
The aim was to look at how transitions care was currently being managed, and how school leaders could improve their offering in a way that benefited students, parents and staff.
Jane Barron explained how she first become aware of the effect of mobility on the performance and wellbeing of young children when she was a school teacher. In international schools around the world, each year will see new children arriving at the school, and also leaving, either at the end of the year to move to another location, or because they are graduating. Nor is it unusual for some students to leave in the middle of term – something that is difficult for the leavers and well as those they have left behind.
While transitions are part of life for international schools, the research found that only half of the schools surveyed had any kind of transitions care programme in place. The better the transition-care, the better students can navigate the challenges of being third culture kids in a new cultural and geographical environment.
WHY IS TRANSITION-CARE IMPORTANT?
The level of care shown to students arriving and leaving is important but it was important not to forgot those students who stayed, and who represented the core of the school, the research found. Different transition- care needs exist across the school community and it was important to take this into account when putting together a care plan.
Jane Barron explained how it was really important to assess the success of your transition-care programme. Previous research in 2009 had found that mobility was the single most detrimental factor for learning, she said, and having revisited the research three times subsequently, it still remained so.
The objective of having a robust transition-care programme was to ensure that for students, mobility could be a positive thing.
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