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: staff wellbeing
Summer Holiday Teacher Wellbeing
When it comes to wellbeing, there is no ‘one size fits all,’ you need to be able to pick and choose what works or doesn’t work for you. You may fit one of these profiles completely, or a few parts of each, or none of them and that is ok. Whichever method you choose to focus on, your wellbeing is personal to you. Read More
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
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
Let’s Stop Calling it Teacher ‘Burnout’ (via Nexus)
I am all for self-care but so many of us don’t have the capacity for this luxury. What if we used the word ‘exploitation’ in place of burnout? What if we changed the narrative? 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
SENCOs: Raising The Profile of These Unsung Heros
This post goes out to all those SENCOs who work tirelessly behind the scenes to ensure that children on the SEND register have everything they need to access their education. I see you. Read More