Download Article » Effective Parent Teacher Meetings Parent-teacher meetings are a regular feature of school life. Often they add to our stress loads. Not only do they usually occur before or after a busy day of teaching, many teachers feel uncomfortable dealing with parents. Setting up the environment for the interviews is important. You should…
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Surviving Report Writing
Download Article » Surviving Report Writing Time Writing reports 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…
Remaining Positive When Others Are Stressed
Download Article » Remaining Positive 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…
Less Stress Behaviour Management
Download Article » Less Stress Behaviour Management Student behaviour can add a layer of complexity to the school environment. At times students can be unpredictable, even irrational. It is this unpredictable nature that adds to our stress levels. If only they’d behave the way that we want them to! Ultimately we can’t control anybody else’s behaviour,…
Is Your Stress Coping Strategy Working FOR Or AGAINST You?
Download Article » Is Your Stress Coping Strategy Working When we experience prolonged negative stress our body consumes Vitamin C, B-complex vitamins and potassium phosphate at an incredible rate. If we are not regularly consuming adequate amounts of these nutrients through our diet, then the resultant deficiency increases our stress response which in turn causes a…
Finish Strong
Download Article » Finish Strong The month of November is a crazy time of the year 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. During this time we are…
Email Madness – Keeping It Under Control
Download Article » Email Madness We need to consider how and why we are using e-mail. Whilst it can be an effective communication method if used well, used poorly, it consumes a lot of unnecessary time. THINK BEFORE YOU WRITE, NOT WHEN YOU WRITE – Remember that a face-to-face conversation is the best form of communication….
Dealing With Difficult Parents
Download Article » Dealing With Difficult Parents Dealing with difficult or demanding parents can certainly add to the stress of working in schools. Whilst staff in schools have the needs of multiple students to consider, most parents are only advocating for a small number of students, their own children. That’s understandable! Keeping the scale of the…
Teachers – Are You Too Warm OR Too Demanding?
Download Article » Are You Too Warm or Too Demanding The relationships we have with students have a direct impact on our stress level and happiness. Behaviour management guru Bill Rogers uses the term Warm-Demanding to describe the ideal demeanor of staff in schools. Rogers argues that our interactions with students should be characterised by a…