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Are Teachers at YOUR School Happy?
A happy staff is essential to a school’s sustained success. Whilst teaching is challenging, most staff should feel happy to work at the school and feel a sense of satisfaction. An unhappy staff is far more likely to ‘go through the motions’ and just do what needs to be done. Recent research by the Centre…
“The Most Honorable of ALL Professions”
99% of adults when asked what is the most important thing in their life will reply ‘their family’. For the vast majority of people, the well-being of our children is our most prized possession, more valuable than our house and our car. Parents entrust their most prized possession in the care of staff who work…
7 Sins of Change Leadership
Have you had enough of change? Many working in education complain of change fatigue and this adds to teacher stress. The only constant these days appears to be change! It has been said that the only person who likes change, is a baby with a wet nappy! However some change processes are more successful than others….
Email Charter to Reduce Teacher Stress
Email is meant to make our lives better through more effective communication. However for most of us email ADDS to our stress! The following 10 Rules to Reverse the Email Spiral are excellent and should be adopted by all schools. Read more about the 10 Rules and sign up to the charter here http://emailcharter.org/ 1…
Working with People In Schools Is Stressful
Schools are people places filled with multiple relationships. This contributes to our stress levels as we have to work with a range of people, with different personalities and a vast array of factors impacting on their mood on any particular day. One of the things that we know through working with a student who’s behaviour…
Demanding Parents Adding to Your Stress?
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 problem in perspective is important. What…
Time Management For Busy, Stressed Teachers
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…
Teachers Risk DHS and Add to Stress Levels
Have you ever heard people say… “I’ll be happy when….…. I’m on holidays!” “….the kids leave home!” “….the house is paid off!” OR “….I’m on long service leave!” This is known as deferred happiness syndrome (DHS). They defer or put off their own happiness. We have all heard that we should make the most of…
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…