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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:

Present Well-BeingLLC

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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,

Teacher Capability

Investing in the capability or expertise of your teachers means immersing your educators in professional experiences that increase their skills and qualities that lead to a sense of accomplishment. When educators learn specific and relevant skills that increase their expertise, they build confidence.

Day School Teacher

Present TeacherTM professional development is built on the foundational knowing that when teachers are not taught how to metabolize the stress of the profession and manage the strong emotions teaching provokes, they exhibit one of the most destructive manifestations of burnout:

lack of personal accomplishment

When teachers feel a loss of self-efficacy and lack of personal accomplishment, the burnout cycle sets in because their mental health is compromised. Because of the stress, they begin to believe that they are ineffective, uninspiring, and unable to cope.

Present TeacherTM professional development is a direct investment in cultivating the capacity and expertise of your teachers because every single moment of our training is about teaching your teachers how to connect with their innate capacity to metabolize stress in order to fuel their engagement, involvement, and energy levels. Teachers learn how to leverage their stressors to actualize and embody their greatest personal assets; become adaptable to change and uncertainty; stay enthusiastic, engaged, and passionate; and become more compassionate with their students...and themselves.

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