Teacher Stress Pack

Stress is part of the job, but when 70 percent of teachers quit within their first five years because the stress is making them physically and mentally ill, things have gone too far. This pack provides advice on dealing with stress in teaching. It seeks to combine self-help guidance with a core of professional reality to provide solutions that are effective and tailored to the demands of the educational sector.

Key Features

• Onward: Cultivating Emotional Resilience in Educators - A practical framework to avoid burnout and keep great teachers teaching. This book offers a path to resiliency to help teachers weather the storms and bounce back—and work toward banishing the rain for good. The companion workbook helps you put the framework into action, streamlining your way toward renewal and strength.
• The Onward Workbook: Daily Activities to Cultivate Your Emotional Resilience and Thrive - An empowering journey that keeps great teachers in the classroom. The workbook takes you on a journey of specific self-discovery that changes your perspective, renews your confidence, and empowers you to make the much-needed changes that allow you to continue inspiring young minds.
• Teacher Burnout Turnaround: Strategies for Empowered Teachers - Stress and burnout are eroding teachers' motivation, performance, quality of classroom interactions, and relationships with students, as well as their commitment to the profession. Educational psychologist Tish Jennings presents a matrix of stress-causing factors that lead to burnout, and shows how teachers can tackle the sources of stress at each pressure point.
• Everyday Self-Care for Educators - If you’re an educator experiencing burnout, compassion fatigue, or vicarious trauma, this book will help you embrace tangible self-care practices to improve your well-being both in and out of the classroom. The book includes a variety of tips and interactive activities to help you identify your own needs and implement helpful practices.
• Coping With Everyday Stressors Workbook - Use the assessments and activities in this workbook to help your clients look at the four prominent dimensions which make up a sense of optimal wellness and help them experience Eustress, rather than distress, in their lives.
• Managing Stress in Education - A practical stress management programme for use in schools and colleges. This resource will reduce the stress levels of students and staff, train staff to manage the effects of stress in the classroom, and develop resilience in students.
• PEP Talks Coping with Stress - Contains 55 cards with inspiring quotes and psychological techniques as well as action tasks. Each card has three parts: a quote or simple psychological technique, an explanation of the quote or technique, and a behavioural assignment. Can be used for individual counselling or group discussions, as well as a home wellness program.

Additional Information

Unsurprisingly, these effects are highest in difficult-to-fill positions such as maths, science, and foreign languages, and in urban areas and secondary classrooms—places where we need our teachers to be especially motivated and engaged. By cultivating resilience in schools, we help ensure that we are working in, teaching in, and leading organisations where every child thrives, and where the potential of every child is recognised and nurtured. Resiliency is an underrated skill—one that can make all the difference in our schools. Challenges will always arise, but it is your response that dictates the outcome. Can you think of a more important lesson for your students?

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Taking Care of Your Mental Health During the COVID-19 Pandemic (PDF) - COVID-19 has caused a worldwide health crisis as well as a worldwide mental health crisis. This workbook was written to help you understand the many ways the pandemic can affect your mental health, and it offers practical tools and solutions to deal with problems before they become too serious.