Theo Wyne has been an International Baccalaureate (IB) DP English A and TOK instructor for 25 years, and an IB Examiner for 12 years. Most of his career has been at Richmond Secondary School in BC, Canada, but he has also taught for 7 years in South Korea, Denmark, and Costa Rica. He has a strong interest in environmental education and in promoting better youth mental health by meaningfully addressing the climate crisis in schools. A highlight of his life was homeschooling and backpacking with his wife and three children in Southeast Asia for six months. Theo is a strong supporter of project-based learning, experiential learning, and addressing the holistic needs of each child.
Over the past 10 years, Theo has seen both teachers and students experience increasing "eco-anxiety". Theo recognizes that acute mental health problems are most often directly related to a student's propensity for self-harm; however, in Theo's experience, external factors (like eco-anxiety or worry about other interconnected crises facing humanity) are contributors to student stress and poor mental health. Thus, Theo seeks to improve youth mental health by empowering youth to address the world crises around them; he seeks to give youth the tools they need to understand their own mental health, and to take action to meaningfully address the climate crisis. Theo sees The Resilience Game Plan: The Playbook for Developing Cognitive, Communication, and Mindfulness Life Skills as the perfect tool for use in schools.
Theo believes many youth can improve their own mental health through a commitment to service—with improved feelings of self-worth come from helping other people and nature to heal. Theo promotes youth values rooted in the appreciation of nature and ecology, social fairness, and empathy. If given the tools to understand their own mental health, youth can improve it and help make the world a better place. The Resilience Game Plan provides youth with a logical, scaffolded, and integrated approach to understand themselves. The Resilience Game Plan is informed by the latest neuroscience. It promotes metacognition, better self-understanding, and feelings of self-worth. The Resilience Game Plan fills a needed gap that currently exists in many school settings, especially those overseen by the IBO.
Theo strongly supports the use of The Resilience Game Plan in schools. He sees it fit very well in all levels of the IBO program: PYP, MYP, DP, and CP and at UWC schools.
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