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Description
Teachers have always needed to know and practice protective strategies in their social emotional first aid kits to manage the daily stressors of working on the front lines of a human-service oriented profession. That need has never been greater given the massive increase in uncertainty and unpredictability in the teaching profession and in one's personal life due to COVID.
In short, teaching is emotional labor-- the effort required to manage and metabolize strong emotions like anger, shame, guilt, anxiety, and overwhelm, as well as generate and stoke positive emotions like joy, hope, and compassion.
Stress significantly diminishes a teacher's capacity to regulate their negative emotions and cultivate positive emotions. Ironically, teachers who leave the profession often cite their inability to cope with their own emotional reactions to loss of control, unpredictability, and lack of purpose in their teaching as the primary reason for burnout.
There are many, many strategies and practices rooted in cognitive and affective neuroscience and social and behavioral sciences that teachers can learn, practice, and integrate into their personal and professional lives as teachers to metabolize stress, manage negative energy, protect themselves from the burnout cycle, and find joy in teaching the whole year through!
Learning Objectives
In this session, teachers will:
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Explore the core elements of the teacher burnout cycle and learn how to protect one's self from the 2 paths to burning out,
We are REVOLUTIONIZING
Self-Care.
We call it
SELF-INTEGRITY.
The stress of our profession can make us forget that our PRESENCE is a palpable force of good in the school and classroom setting.
Teaching youth is a privilege.
We believe that we honor this privilege by showing up every day embodying self-integrity
~mental health, emotional agility, and spiritual resilience~
so that we mirror and model personal power, compassion, and social and emotional well-being to those in our care.
The Present Teacher Restoration ProjectTM
is an innovative and unique adult SEL professional development offering designed by Present Teaching TrainingTM that focuses on providing our educators with systematic, research-based best practices in mental health and emotional resilience support for sustainable well-being in the midst of a global pandemic and our collective mission of social justice work.
Hennepin County Educators
We are thrilled to continue to work Hennepin County to bring you the Spring 2021
Present Teacher Restoration Project.
Present SchoolsTM
is an innovative professional development training designed to engage school staff, educators, and administrators in expanding their knowledge and embodiment of the foundational elements of holistic school wellness:
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL)
Mental & Emotional Well-Being
Embodied Equity
Explore extensive list of virtual and in-person
innovative, research-based educator
mental, social, and emotional well-being
professional learning sessions for your staff!
FREE Teacher Mental and Emotional Health VIDEOS
Self-Compassion:
A Youth Worker's Superpower!
Check out Jen's conversation with Jade Schleif from YIPA (Youth Intervention Programs Association) about all the ways self-compassion helps us build healthy relationships with ourselves so that we can be fully present for the youth we serve.
OnEducation is a must listen to Podcast for teachers! Mike and Glen keep the conversations about teaching and being a teacher real and honest.
In this episode, Jen talks about teacher mental health with Mike and Glen, and they have some very real and honest questions for her....
Our Well-Being IS
Social Justice Work
Check out what teachers and administrators have to say about the well-being work!
Explore how to engage your teachers in earning up to 20 mental and emotional health clock hours in this
research-based sustained and systematic teacher stress-resilience curriculum designed to provide teachers with sustained and integrated professional development at your school site...
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Present TeacherTM
Present Well-Being LLC