Penny Sheets Thibaut

As a life-long optimist, I see the Toolbox as a way to help students learn key skills that will help them not only be happier, healthier, kinder and more persevering in their lives, but also better learners, thinkers and professionals in the future.

As a teacher in Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, I especially love teaching about topics in communication and journalism which affect our everyday lives. However, I notice that many of our students are impacted so heavily by the state of the world that they are unable to benefit from their studies as we might hope. They get blocked by their individual or societal setbacks and need help learning how to cope with these before they can really put into practice the rest of what they learn. That’s why I’m drawn to the idea of the Inner Development Goals and focused on Resilience. As a life-long optimist, I see the Toolbox as a way to help students learn key skills that will help them not only be happier, healthier, kinder, and more persevering in their lives, but also better learners, thinkers, and professionals in the future.