Educators

Our teachers aim to provide continuity of education for young people admitted to hospital. As educators ourselves, we understand that having a student needing hospitalisation is a challenging situation. When a young person or their family consent to work with us, we strive to work together with key contacts from the young person’s regular educational setting. We discuss how we can together maintain the young person’s connection to education and assist their eventual return to school.

How Can I Support My Student?

Treatment Phase

Each student is allocated an MCHS teacher who you will be able to contact to discuss learning needs while the student is away from school. As a key contact in a young person’s regular education setting, you can help us by:

providing an overview of the child’s academic, social and emotional development

providing learning tasks to allow young people the opportunity to keep up their curriculum

informing us of any particular skills and concepts the young person would benefit from whilst they have access to intensive support

providing any individual education plans

communicating with us during an inpatient phase of treatment.

Recovery Phase

At times a young person may be well enough to be discharged from hospital but not well enough to attend their regular educational setting.

The recovery phase is a critical time when a young person can potentially disengage from education. It is imperative that the regular education provider connects with the young person and their family when they have been discharged.

MCHS teachers will strive to inform key educational contacts when an admission is coming to an end. Your role on discharge is to contact the family and young person to ensure communication between home and school is open, transparent and regular.

Reintegration Phase

A return to school plan devised by the school with advice from the family and medical/health treating team can aid a student’s successful reintegration back into education.
Things to consider when assisting a young person to return to school could include:

full time or gradual return

timetable modifications

adjustments to coursework and assessment

teaching and learning modifications

allowances made for attending medical appointments

Health and Safety plans

professional development provided to staff

Courses

Ongoing health concerns can impact a student’s ability to access education in many ways and to varying degrees. Monash Children’s Hospital School aims to link educators with healthcare information so they can provide the best educational experience for their student. In the foreseeable future MCHS, along with their medical/health colleagues, will be developing professional learning courses and seminars for educators.

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) Education Series

Monash Children's Hospital School, The Victorian Paediatric Rehabilitation Service and Heads Together are very pleased to launch their education session for teachers and educators of students with Acquired Brain Injury 2023.

We invite you to register for the half day online session to be held on AUGUST 2^nd 2023 from 9-1:30 AEST.

Please note, this will be an interactive online session and not recorded.

Please click for more details and to register for the event:
https://registration.socio.events/e/abieducationseries

In 2023, we are launching a new format - based on participant feedback! This exciting half day event will be an opportunity to learn from experienced clinicians and those with lived experience about how an ABI can impact students' cognition and learning, behaviour and emotions whilst developing practical strategies to support a child with an ABI in the classroom and school.

This half-day of learning is specifically focused on the unique needs of students who have experienced an ABI and aims to equip teachers with knowledge, strategies and the confidence to manage these needs. Yet, previous attendees always report that these strategies can be useful for all students within your classroom.

This format will also provide an interactive chance to hear from your peers about strategies and supports they have implemented to support students.

Thank you for your continued support of the training series. Please feel free to forward this invitation to relevant contacts.

Cystic Fibrosis Teacher Education Series

Monash Children’s Hospital School, Monash Children’s Hospital, The Royal Children’s Hospital and Cystic Fibrosis Community Care are pleased to present the 2024 Cystic Fibrosis Educators' series.

The 2 session series is a free, online professional development for teachers and educators to attend to learn more about Cystic Fibrosis and the implications for the students they teach.

Sessions for 2024 will be held on Wednesday 14th February, Wednesday 21st February from 3:45pm-4:45pm.

Click here for registration link or scan QR code below.