By: Annaliese Collison, Bonnie Lilford, Caroline Farag

and Tanya Nguyen.

PROFESSOR MICHAEL
BERNARD

Founder of the You Can Do It

Program

FOUNDATIONS

BLOCKERS

HABITS OF MIND
Accepting myself
Taking risks
Being
Independent
I Can Do It
Giving Effort
Working Tough

Setting Goals
Planning My Time
Being Tolerant of
Others
Thinking First
Playing By The
Rules
Social
Responsibility

BARRIER MODEL

FOUNDATION
CHARACTERS
CHARLIE
CONFIDENCE
PENNY
PERSISTENCE
OLIVIA
ORGANISATION
GARY GET-ALONG

BLOCKER CHARACTERS
SAD SALLY
WORRIED
WILLIAM
LAZY LARRY
NATHAN
NUISANCE
ANGRY ANNIE

ROSEWORTH PRIMARY VALUES DAY

CHELTENHAM PRIMARY EXTRINSIC MOTIVATION

PARENT PACK

CONSIDERATIONS/
RECOMMENDATIONS
-

The program is more beneficial when teachers receive

professional development on a constant basis to reflect
and learn new approaches..

Children with learning disabilities, such as reading

difficulties and students who struggle academically,
receive plenty of time to learn and understand the habits
of mind, such as working tough, setting goals and
thinking first.

Teaching the social and emotional capabilities needs to be

taught also out of the classroom, this includes in the
playground and throughout the school day.

Teachers should use the explicit teaching guidance

contained within the You Can Do It program. This is

HEALTH
The World Health Organisation (1948)
defines health as: A state of complete
physical, social and mental well being
and not merely the absence of disease or
infirmity.
Donatelle (2004) states that there are six
dimensions of health:
PHYSICAL HEALTH
SOCIAL HEALTH
SPIRITUAL HEALTH
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
INTELLECTUAL HEALTH
EMOTIONAL HEALTH

LAURIMAR PRIMARY SCHOOL VISUALS

ISSUES
cost
dependence on families to
implement techniques

AUSVELS
You Can Do It program also correlates with the four main areas of
personal development, this being;
*Learning to understand
(Ausvels, 2015)

and

manage

their

own

emotions

*Developing resilience, confidence and dispositions which

support learning (these are taught through the 5 keys and habits
of the mind) (AusVels, 2015)
*preparing for lifelong learning, and
*recognising and enact learning principles within and beyond the

CONCLUSION
Overall this program is
highly beneficial to
improving students social
and emotional wellbeing
when implemented within
schools in the appropriate
manner. Therefore, though
there are perspectives that
may challenge this view,
this is evident in such

CELEBRITY HEADS
5 Foundation Characters: Charlie
Confidence, Penny Persistence,
Olivia Organisation, Gary Get-Along,
Rosie Resilience
5 Blocker Characters: Nathan
Nuisance, Angry Annie, Worried

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