Developing Wellbeing skills in the classroom: The PEAS project: Positive Education Actions in Schools

Teachers today do not only have to develop disciplinary skills but are also asked to promote psychosocial competences in their classrooms. However, there is no established psychosocial skills instructional support, so they often lack the adequate and specific material to do so, nor is there a common ground in Swiss teacher-training to reflect on this topic. Positive Education in Action in School (PEAS) is an international and multilingual project involving the three linguistic regions of Switzerland and is conducted by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland and the University of Teacher Education, Wallis, in collaboration with the University of East London. This contribution will focus on the presentation of a jointly soon-to-be published handbook for the implementation of positive psychology in schools, as well as an online platform and a new future CAS for teachers. The book, the platform and the course draw on the newest research results and evaluated practices, to promote the sharing of tools, procedures and materials specific for teachers, significantly contributing in that way to the instructional support and disciplinary innovation in the field of Positive Education.