Summer rest is not an easy concept. Moving from intensive work to freedom can be a shock to the system. A reflection by David Rushby. Read More
Tag: mental health
Spotlight on: Adrian Bethune
Adrian advocates that there is nothing more important than your emotional wellbeing. Read More
Developing Coping Skills: Helen Witty
Emotion-Based Coping techniques are all about managing our feelings and our thoughts in times of stress and overwhelm. These techniques can help us become less emotionally tied and affected by our difficult situations. Read More
School Staff Mental Health: 5 Ways To Reach Out
Mental health in education is high on every teachers agenda but actually actioning positive steps towards supporting our own mental health, often takes a backseat. Read More
Supporting Our Pupils With The Ongoing Conflict (via Teacher Toolkit) + Further Resources for National Reflection Day
With the ongoing fighting, the plight of those who have been affected by war is not far from any of our minds. The conflict has been problematic for teachers to know what to say; what is too much and what is not enough. It is a huge challenge to cater to everyone’s wishes in this situation; kudos goes to all of our schools that deal with these issues with sensitivity. Read More
The Life After Teaching Chronicles Episode 2: Chris Walsh (Tutor Right)
Here is the 2nd installment where I speak to Chris Walsh from http://www.tutorright.co.uk/ about how he left education world in order to start a tutoring business which has now expanded exponentially! Read More
A PowerPoint Journal for Children: An Alternative To Writing
e, rewarding and reflective process but for some children who hate to write, well there’s no way you could get them to do it! Hopefully by using a PowerPoint they will find that it more acceptable than writing but with the same benefits. Read More
Adult Screen Time; A Different Perspective
There is so much bad press surrounding adult screen time and how it encourages you tune out of the world around you, meaning you are less present in your life. I am a firm believer in everything in moderation and although I don’t look at my phone at the table or while I’m talking to someone, sometimes, I do just enjoy mindlessly scrolling though feeds and posts. It was a guilty pleasure of mine, until I chose to forget the ‘guilt’ element. Read More
Teacher workload; are you a self-fulfilling prophecy?
We as educationalists are also our own worst enemies in expecting to live up to our own self-fulfilling prophecies, which we have imposed on ourselves by simply aspiring to be great teachers. Many are finding that they cannot keep up with the high output that both they themselves and the profession has expected of them. Read More
You’ve Escaped The Classroom….. But What Now?? By Sharon Cawley
escaped, left, walked – which ever way you want to look at it, you are about to have a rollercoaster of emotions. Many think it is simply going to be a sense of relief, a euphoria and then having stepped off the cliff, you float across to the next stage of your life and it is an extremely enviable position to be in. In many ways it is, but you will have high highs and lows lows because teaching isn’t a job – it is a vocation Read More