Instead of making a list of resolutions that you know you won’t achieve, set yourself the goal of being happy, calm and in control at work every day. Here are five provenpsychological effects that can help, or harm, your stress, productivity and happiness. 1. Confirmation Bias – What You See is What You Get We…
Top 5 Reasons Why Some People I Work With Are So Difficult
Whenever I speak in workplaces about difficult managers and co-workers, there is always one question that always comes up… ‘How do we get rid of them?‘ But I think a more important question to ask is, ‘Why are they so difficult?’ If you have the belief that the answer to that question is that they…
Juggling Work-Life Balance Whilst Teaching Remotely
Achieving work-life balance is difficult at the best of times. However, the unprecedented changes and uncertainty brought about by COVID-19 have made it even more challenging. The rapidly changing environment has been both unsettling and demanding. Staff have had to quickly adopt new approaches, learn new technologies, retrofit lessons to suit the new approach and…
Parent Conferences: Mastering the Non-Verbals
Parent conferences are a busy and demanding time for teachers, especially where we are dealing with complex issues, working with difficult people or delivering ‘bad’ news. Effective communication is vital in building trust. Our use of non-verbals is important Take care of yourself Never be alone in the building for parent conferences. Prepare well, ducks…
Working with Lawnmower Parents
Over-parenting was often called “helicopter parenting”, as these parents hover over their children to make sure nothing goes wrong. Research shows that today’s parents spend more time per day parenting than in the 1980s. Parents are protective by nature but some consistently intervene to help children avoid any kind of failure. Lawnmower parents go to…
6 Simple Strategies For Saving Your Sanity
Working in schools is busy. There is always too much to do and not enough time to do it. One of the many challenges is that the work can be never ending. There is always MORE that can be done. MORE preparation, MORE marking and feedback, MORE researching options, MORE skills to develop, MORE technology…
BIG Black Holes: Where does the time go?
At times, working in schools can be overwhelming. You have students and parents to help, lessons to plan, student work to mark, meetings to attend, reports to write, budgets to submit, emails to respond to and, if there is any time left—students to teach. There is so much to do, and only a limited amount…
7 Strategies For Student Engagement
1 They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care We have all heard this saying before but it’s true. Our work in schools is ALL about relationships. Do your students know you care? How well do you know your students? Smiling makes a difference – smiling lets your students…
Difficult People Are Sent To Teach Us Something
A great way to turn situations or people that we might find frustrating or annoying into opportunities for improving ourselves is to develop the habit of seeing every person that we meet as somebody who has been sent to teach us something. Rather than thinking that cranky, hard-to-please parent has been sent to make our…
6 Strategies For Reducing Email Load
Working in schools, we need to protect our professional time vigilantly. Email can eagerly devour our preparation time, infringe on our time outside of school and can distance us from the important tasks. If we are disciplined though, email doesn’t have to be a burden – we can use it as a weapon of efficiency,…
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