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How My Mind Check can help educators provide better informed insights and outcomes during parent-teacher interviews, giving students a chance to thrive both inside and outside of school.
Written by Hilary Tucker (Clinical Product Manager, My Mind Check), 22 May 2025.
Educators and teachers play a vital role in the support of their students’ mental health and wellbeing. Their support can significantly impact a young person’s ability to thrive academically and emotionally.
Parent-teacher interviews have long been a cornerstone of educational communication, but their potential to help support a student’s mental health is often overlooked. A parent-teacher interview can be a powerful platform to discuss the emotional wellbeing, behavioural patterns and overall mental health of a young person.
Teachers and educators are uniquely positioned to help identify struggling students that may fly under the radar or go unnoticed. Many students often mask their feelings, making it harder for teachers to effectively identify and respond to their barriers to learning.
Sometimes these barriers may be hard to identify. Examples are students who:
Parent-teacher interviews often involve thorough preparation, including various learning checkpoints to illustrate each student’s progress. Caregivers can often have high expectations, wanting educators to provide as much information and insights as they can during these meetings.
These insights rely on educators understanding and monitoring each student’s overall wellbeing through classroom observations, as well as open conversations with the student and their caregiver(s). But for some students, a more targeted approach may be needed, by providing them a safe space to reflect on their own mental health.
Recent research has demonstrated that online mental health check-ins at school can be an effective way to identify at-risk young people, and can actively improve student mental wellbeing over time.
My Mind Check enables schools to perform 10–15-minute check-ins on their students’ wellbeing throughout the school year, helping schools understand whether students may benefit from further information or attention.
Our digital tool can help educators identify those students who may potentially be masking their feelings, or may feel more comfortable responding to a survey as opposed to having a face-to-face conversation. This information can supplement what educators may already know or have observed in the classroom, helping them better understand how a student is feeling about their own mental health.
The connection between academic success and mental wellbeing is undeniable. My Mind Check can help educators provide better insights and outcomes during parent-teacher interviews, giving students a chance to thrive inside and outside of school.
16 April 2025
In this Channel 10 segment, Professor Ron Rapee discusses the impact of My Mind Check, alongside Alana Koch from St Luke Grammar School, Sydney, highlighting the tool’s role in supporting student mental wellbeing.
6 February 2025
New research from the Macquarie University’s Lifespan Health and Wellbeing Research Centre validates effectiveness of youth mental health check-ins at school.
21 November 2024
In response to the rising mental health issues in students, Macquarie University created My Mind Check, a free tool for schools to monitor wellbeing and identify concerns early.
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