Have you found yourself continuously clearing your throat or sounding hoarse and croaky? You may be damaging your tool of the trade as nodules could be forming on your vocal folds. You could easily do damage that could cause you to have to consider a career change. The teaching profession has the highest numbers when…
Five tips for Managing Technostress
When I started teaching, I found it surprisingly difficult to use technology in my lessons, and I was the tech guy. I found this situation stressful because:- – The tech was unreliable and didn’t work as planned – I wasn’t that good at using the tech as a learning tool I developed imposter syndrome as…
Remaining Positive When Others Are Stressed
Have you ever noticed that some people are able to maintain their positivity, even in stressful situations, whereas others do the opposite? Why is this? Positive co-workers have the right attitude. They realise that although others can act in ways that help to make us stressed or happy, ultimately our happiness is determined by the…
Finish Strong
The final term of the school year is a crazy time in schools. End of year reporting, class allocations, timetabling, budgets and planning for next year swamp us at a time when our energies are low and many of us feel we are running on empty. By the end of the year we are more…
A Word for Stressful Times
When I started teaching high school in 1979, my Principal Glynn Watkins asked all the teachers to consider our philosophy, for teaching and for life. Even though we never used the word mentor in the 1970ʼs and 80ʼs, in 2008 when I attended Glynnʼs funeral, I realised that he was my number one mentor. On…
Being Resilient in Challenging Times
According to the World Health Organisation Icelandic people are amongst the longest living on the planet. On average they make it to over 83 years of age. Despite Iceland being a terrible place to live (food is scarce, winters last for nine months, for a number of days there are only four hours of sunlight…
Who Would Be A Teacher? Special edition
Celebrated in more than 100 countries world-wide, World Teachers’ Day was established by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 1994 to recognise the role of teachers in society. In Australia and New Zealand it is celebrated on the last Friday in October. Who Would Be A Teacher? Teaching can be…
How to Have The Energy of a Four Year Old Almost Every Day
What would your life be like if you could welcome almost every day with the resilience and energy of a typical four year old? Where is your energy on the scale? At one end of the scale there is the energy of the typical four-year-old. From morning to night, their boundless energy fills their day…
Surviving Report Writing
Report writing time is stressful – fact! It is an additional task to do as well as your usual day-to-day responsibilities as a teacher. It also comes at the end of term when we are most vulnerable. However the stress is to be expected – don’t be surprised. It happens at this time every year!…
Formula For Success – Keep It Simple
Teachers (and other staff who work in schools) are often our own harshest critic. We are often self-critical and can be REALLY tough on ourselves. We can feel like there is always more that can and should be done and it can seem like our work is never ending. The following simple strategies are the…
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