Help Your Team Manage Stress, Anxiety, and Burnout It can be tough enough to manage your own stress. But how can you, as a manager, help the members of your team handle their feelings of stress, burnout, or disengagement? Because work is getting more demanding and complex, and because many of us now work in 24/7 environments, anxiety and burnout are not uncommon. In our high-pressure workplaces, staying productive and engaged can be challenging. Although it’s unlikely that the pace or intensity of work will change much anytime soon, there’s a growing body of research that suggests certain types of development activities can effectively build the capacity for resilience. One approach is to focus on employees’ personal growth and development. The good news is that there are some very practical and easy-to-implement approaches to personal development that managers and team members can adopt — and they aren’t time-, budget-, or resource-intensive. Model and encourage well-being practices. Allow time to disconnect outside of work.
How To Burn Yourself Out As A Teacher How To Burn Yourself Out As A Teacher by TeachThought Staff We published a post last year titled, “Why Good Teachers Quit.” Nearly 70,000+ social shares–and scores of comments–later, and it’s pretty clear that this idea (captured so well by Kay Bisaillon) is resonating with more teachers than we were aware. We’ve taken a few different approaches to the idea in the past, including 25 Ways To Reduce Teacher Burnout & Secrets For Teacher Survival, as well as The Best Teachers Don’t Do What They’re Told, as well as a recent post about “teaching differently.” So here we are again, taking another look at teacher burnout, this time trying to understand how it happens. Teacher Burnout: How To Get It Done 1. Teaching is a wonderful mix of curiosity, content, and process–ideas and data; love and numbers; soft and hard. 2. Your creativity is your spark. 3. How do you assign work? The workflow of the modern teacher is everything. 4. Teaching is a deeply human process. 5. Don’t. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
10 tips for administrators to help new teachers avoid burnout – @EDUWELLS I remember what it was like to be a new teacher. Not knowing what to focus on, not being sure how to balance being formal and friendly, wondering if you’d ever get through the curriculum, mastering the school’s computer systems, and on top of all this, you can’t even find your way around the school! Here’s 10 things I would suggest all administrators do to make it easy for new teachers. After all, we need to keep everyone teacher we get, the attrition rate is frightening. Time. Author: Richard Wells Teaches grade 6 to 12 – Head of Technology at NZ High School Top 40 in edublog awards 2013 Top 12 Blogger – The Global Search for Education Known for Educational Infographics (see Posters)and an International Speaker. This post is written as part of The Huffington Post’s The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs: A series of questions that Cathy Rubin is asking several education bloggers. Like this: Like Loading... Related Why #EdChat is NOT just Resources and Ideas
Create The Habits You Want - Stress Relief 4 Teachers Listen to the podcast below, but here’s the gist of it: Write down the changes you want to make.Pick certain days to focus and not let anything get in your way.Pick certain hours of the day to create new habits. I go into more detail on the audio. You can listen (and subscribe) to the One Teaching Tip podcast at Stitcher or iTunes. Or you can just listen here. 21 Days to Less Stress – Get the free Guide by Clicking Here.Get it HereFree <a href=" target="_blank">Get it Here</a><a href=" target="_blank">Sell digital downloads</a> Contagious Emotions and Responding to Stress Neuroscience research suggests that emotions are contagious. Our brains are social organs, and we are wired for relationships. When we encounter or experience intense emotions from another individual, we feel those feelings as if they were our own. Mirror neurons in our brains are responsible for empathy, happiness, and the contagious anger, sadness, or anxiety that we feel when another person is experiencing these same feelings. Students and educators need to understand how quickly this negative interaction can occur. Calming the Stress Response Focused attention practices and movement are the two neurological strategies for calming an angry and anxiety-ridden brain. 1. Give students -- and yourself -- a few minutes to step away from a conflict and de-escalate the limbic reaction. 2. Once the negative emotions have calmed down and the brain has regulated, validation is critical for helping students know that they are heard and understood. That must have made you feel really angry. 3.
'Stress contagion': How teacher burnout can affect your children A teacher suffering from burnout may be directly linked to stress in their students, a first-of-its-kind study from the University of British Columbia says. The goal of the study -- published in the journal Social Science & Medicine's second June issue -- was to determine if there was a correlation between teachers' burnout levels and students' physiological stress response. The study authors note that students who suffer from higher levels of stress suffer from more mental health problems, adjustment problems in school and struggle academically. Educational psychology researchers took saliva samples and tested cortisol levels – a hormone that is released in response to stress – from 406 students in Grades 4 to 7 in 17 classrooms across Metro Vancouver. In classrooms where teachers reported feeling emotional exhaustion or burnout, students had elevated cortisol levels. The researchers say their findings could mean that a teacher's stress may be contagious for the children they teach.
Burned Out? 12 Powerful Ways To Transform Your Life You know the feeling: It’s 10 a.m., you’re jittery from that third cup of coffee, and your mind feels like glue. You’re drained -- physically, mentally and emotionally -- and dispassionate about things that once brought you joy. Motivated? Forget it. Too often, it seems like exhaustion and achievement go hand-in-hand. While that double shot of espresso and second layer of concealer might help you look refreshed, deep, fundamental change takes time. 1. Your body is a machine. 2. Mindful eating takes practice. 3. Caffeine is a stimulant that directly affects your central nervous system. 4. Movement is a powerful mood-booster and stress-reducer, and has been shown to protect memory and thinking skills. 5. Yeah, we know. 6. Happy skin is a happy you. 7. This one is simple: Do things that make you happy. 8. That gut feeling you have when making big decisions? 9. Breaking up your routine can be one of the best cures for world weariness. 10. 11. Learning makes us happy. 12.
The Global Search for Education: Our Top 12 Global Teacher Blogs - What are the quick ways to combat teacher stress in a classroom? | C. M. Rubin Teachers report high levels of stress and low levels of autonomy according to a new survey of over 30,000 teachers in the United States: Quality of Worklife Survey. Each month we ask our Top 12 Global Teacher Bloggers to share their perspectives on the issues that teachers around the world believe are the most critical. Following the new AFT and Badass Teachers survey, we asked our Global Top 12 Teachers to share their solutions to this question: "What are the quick ways to combat teacher stress in a classroom?" First, please allow me to plug US based Pauline Hawkins' (@PaulineDHawkins) terrific new book that we recommend for educators and parents: Uncommon Core: 25 Ways to Help Your Child Succeed in a Cookie Cutter Educational System. Elementary school assistant principal Brenda Maurao (@bmaurao) acknowledges that the "new demands placed on teachers recently, including educator evaluation and high stakes testing have changed the climate in many of our schools." (Photo is courtesy of C.