All students carry some baggage with them. Some of the baggage is positive and some negative. To help you recognize and help students come to terms and overcome their negative baggage here are a few ideas and tips on what you can do: • Foster a safe, inclusive, and welcoming school culture where students feel valued and respected. • Promote positive relationships among students and between students and teachers. • Establish mentoring programs where older students or community members mentor younger students. • Learn to recognize signs of mental health issues and ask appropriate referrals. • Recognize and celebrate student achievements, both big and small, to boost self-esteem and motivation. • Highlight success stories of former students who overcame challenges and completed their education successfully. • Implement peer mentoring or tutoring programs to create a sense of community and academic support among students. • Encourage students to help each other succeed. • Seek feedback from students, parents, and educators to improve the support system. • Create a culture of appreciation in the classroom or learning environment. Regularly acknowledge and celebrate students' achievements, whether big or small. This can help them recognize that they are appreciated. • Teach students how to challenge negative self-talk and replace it with positive affirmations. Building a positive self-image is crucial for self-recognition and appreciation. • Help students set achievable goals and break them down into smaller, manageable steps. Celebrate their progress as they work toward these goals. To learn more about how we to identify baggage that might affect your educational success we invite you to read Chapter 1 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual

Well done. Your responses show that you are capable of critically analysing and recognizing the baggage that students carry with them to the college. In case you feel that there are areas where you want to deepen your knowledge about how to gain a deeper understanding of negative baggage and how to identify negative baggage, we kindly invite you to read Chapter 1 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual.

It is almost impossible to overcome the negative baggage by your own. This is why your support is needed when it comes to helping students overcome their negative baggage. Here are a few tips and suggestions on how you can support students overcome their negative baggage: • Focus on what the students do well • Use positive reinforcement • Treating the students with respect • Peerlearning/peersupport • Set smaller empowered targets • Provide experiences that challenge students to take ownership of their own direction • Use coaching to encourage the students to reflect on their own experiences • Reflect on students whose achievements contradicted your perceptions • Adopt an open mindset To learn more about how you with the support of other educators can support your students feel more empowered and able to overcome their negative baggage we invite you to read Chapter 2 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual.

Fantastic. Your responses show that you have the skills to support and empower your students. In case there are areas where you want to deepen your knowledge about how to empower others and support inclusivity at your college, we kindly invite you to read Chapter 2 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual.

In chapter 2 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual we spoke about the importance of inclusion and how finding the right person can empower you as a student to succeed in your studies. You might want to go and familiarize yourself with that chapter: Chapter 2 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual. If you feel that you have a hard time getting to know the students personal lives and their struggles, and you don’t really understand why you should here are a few reasons why we believe it important to get to know the person behind the student: • Getting to know more about personal lives of your students and coach them to deal with personal matters helps them also in there learning process. • Organize a specific activity and involve parents and students to learn more about the student's family. • Make it an a mandatory part of entering your school that parents/guardians are actively involved To learn more about the importance of a WE-approach we invite you to read Chapter 3 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual.

Marvellous. Your responses show that you take a genuine interest in your students. If you would like to encourage your colleagues to follow in your footsteps we kindly invite you to read Chapter 3 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual where you can find more information about this topic: Chapter 3 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual.

Enhancing and encouraging collaboration is the key for succeeding in studies and in life in general. Students need coaches who support, empowers, and helps them set up coping strategies that helpd increase confidence, self-awareness, and skills needed to start shedding their negative baggage. Here are a few tips about what you as an educator can do to support your students: • Provide your students with constructive, supporting and encouraging feedback as often as possible. Below are a few do’s and don’t that you should keep in mind when giving feedback. Do’s • Feedback should be about behaviour not personality o Feedback should describe the effect and impact of the person’s behaviour/ situation o Give praise where praise is due o Work on the positive aspects to build strengths and relevance of the student (everything you give attention to, grows) o Ensure criticism is a positive enabling statement so that the recipient feels empowered to implement improvements. · Display appropriate body language, especially in terms of eye contact, body positioning and physical mannerisms. · Be specific about the good behaviours and be non-judgemental. · Mutually explore and possibly offer suggestions or options for improvement or change. Don’ts · Avoid sarcasm and demeaning comments. · Avoid blaming the individual with aggressive ’you’ statements. · Avoid too much attention or importance to the negative aspects · Avoid being judgemental · Don’t finish on a negative mood · Avoid generalising or using other people’s opinions (focus on your relationship and opinions) • Remember to actively listen when talking with your students. Active listening is the ability to listen and internalise what is being said, essentially listening and understanding. • Keep in mind that non-verbal communication has more impact than words alone, so use encouraging facial expressions, eye contact, non-verbal prompts • It's worth noting that questions should avoid starting with the word "why". The reasons for this is that questions that start with the word "why" tend to imply judgement of some sort and this may change the thought process of the student being coached/mentored. To learn more about the importance of coaching when supporting students drop their negative baggage we invite you to read Chapter 4 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual

Amazing! Your responses show that you have the coaching skills needed to support your students drop their baggage. If you would like to become a coach and offer support and guidance to your fellow educators, we kindly invite you to read Chapter 4 of the S.C.R.E.A.M! manual.

Remember that all students are unique and have their own individual learning styles and preferences. They might also be facing challenges in their personal life which might influence the way they are behaving. Here are a few tips on how you can improve your capabilities of helping and supporting students drop their negative baggage: • Be aware that you can’t help a student properly if you don’t know anything about his environment. • To improve your coaching skills we invite you to read chapter 4 of the manual (add a link to chapter 4 of the manual) and try some coaching models. Which model does help you to act like a coach? • Make a plan in which you make an inventory of what you need in order to develop your lessons. Ask also help from your colleagues. Together you’re stronger when you bring this up with your superiors. If you want learn more about the Scream methodology, which is a methodology that is built around these words: Strength, Collaboration, Respect, Evaluate, Achieve, Motivate, and how you can use it to help students drop their negative baggage we invite you to read Chapter 5 of the Scream manual.

Superb! Your responses show that you have the will to support students drop their negative baggage and help them succeed in their studies and life in general. Have you considered supporting your colleagues to also become S.C.R.E.A.M!-ambassadors? If yes, we kindly invite you to read Chapter 5 of the Scream manual.