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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,
Present TeacherTM & Hennepin County Public Health
are excited to offer Hennepin County Educators
Please take a moment to review these important tips for engaging the training.
We want this to be as STRESS-free as possible!
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You will learn what to bookmark to keep coming back each week to access new modules as they are released.
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How to log on to the training using your school email address.
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How to complete each module and obtain your CERTIFICATE of COMPLETION....
Tips for Optimal User
Experience
For administrators
and
school wellness personnel
VIDEO
Welcome
&
Walk Through the Training
Teacher Testimonials
This training was a life saver!
Every week I was waiting for it to practice meditation, remind me of my strengths, and manage my energy in the best way possible to survive and find joy in the middle of a pandemic and distance learning- THANK YOU!!
Minneapolis Public School Educator
Everything I learned in the PTRP can be applied to my teaching and well-being immediately!
I can implement the tools I learned with students, and they would be able to replicate them on their own for their own benefit.
Minneapolis Public School Educator
I loved going through the PTRP modules!
The PTRP modules affirms everything we feel in a day, week, and year. This training gave me practical wellness tools that helped me with my stress levels, and it also addresses one to be self-reflective and honest in one's teaching practice to bring about more inclusiveness and equity.
1st Grade Teacher
I found the series to be calming, centering, and hopeful!
It was really nice to have short modules that I could complete anytime between my on-line teaching sessions and meetings.
Elementary Teacher
Module Details
Each of the 8 modules are revealed on the learning platform one week at a time on the dates below. As you move through the modules, you always have access to the previous module.
March 23
Module 1
Prioritizing Your SEL & Well-Being
The Power of Attention, Attitude, and Awareness
Mindfulness Focus: Breath & Body Awareness
March 30
Module 2
Banishing Time Stress
The art of managing your energy and not your time
Mindfulness Focus: Mind Awareness
Module 3
April 6
Taming the Toxic Stress Impact
Learning the Art of Metabolizing Stress
Mindfulness Focus: Perceptual Awareness
April 13
Module 4
Compassionate Teachers ~ Calm Students
Protecting yourself from compassion fatigue and vicarious trauma
April 20
Mindfulness Focus: Self-Compassion
Teacher Joy!
The power of your positivity
Module 5
Mindfulness Focus: Emotional Awareness
Trauma & Teaching
Transforming Teacher Stress into Strength
April 27
Module 6
Mindfulness Focus: Body & Breath Awareness
Teacher Restoration AS Social Justice Work
May 4
Module 7
Mindfulness Focus: Critical Consciousness & Embodied Equity
Establishing Your Well-Being Manifesto
Creating a plan to enact your well-being habits
May 11
Module 8
Mindfulness Focus: Self-Awareness, Spiritual Resilience, Self-Regulation
After the 8th module is revealed on May 11,
ALL modules will be accessible July 18th, 2021
*Please be sure to complete all 8 modules by the July 18th.
Once the training closes on this date, you will no longer have access to completing the training and printing your certificate of completion.
Module Components
Each 30 minute training module engages the intellect, calms the mind, and restores balance to the body.
10 - 15 minute educational video
5 minute calming guided audio meditation
10 minute guided gentle yoga practice
Weekly Put Into Practice Reflective Handouts
Our Why
The Present Teacher Restoration ProjectTM is a research-based adult SEL curriculum with a systematic scope and sequence of interrelated topics and body-based experiences and practices that are designed to build off each other to cultivate teacher mental health, emotional intelligence, and spiritual resilience. For we know that when teachers are well, our students, communities, and schools thrive!
Integrating experiential learning, transformative SEL, adult learning theory, light yoga, neuroscience, and mindfulness-based practices, all our phenomenal school faculty, staff, and administration learn how to stoke their own social and emotional wellness while they learn how to navigate the cycle of well-being through the stressors of the profession.
In this 4 hour, self-pace engaging teacher professional learning experience, educators the art of metabolizing stress to stave off burnout, mitigate compassion fatigue and secondary trauma, and
RESTORE
their mental, emotional, and physical energy
RESTORY
stress and anxiety
RECLAIM
their connection to their selves, students, and their calling to teach.
Given the many social factors that are creating a toxic stress impact for our educators, this 4 hour teacher SEL online training has been specifically customized to meet our teacher's mental health and emotional resilience needs for teaching during a global pandemic and renewed called for social justice.
Read more here about our belief that Teacher Well-Being is Social Justice Work in Action
Teachers earn 4 clock hours
*Upon engaging all 8 modules, a Certificate of Completion and detailed syllabus will be available to download and print from within the webinar platform. You are encourage you to check with your administration to determine if your participation will count toward continuing education requirements.
Outcomes
Provide teachers with research, strategies, and experiences rooted in mindful awareness for the deepening of self-awareness, emotional resilience, and self-compassion so that they can routinely adapt to the stressors of the profession in a functional and flexible way.
Teach teachers how to strategically access their inner resources of calm, resilience, and positivity for counteracting the onset and manifestation of burnout and emotional fatigue while increasing their innate capacity to actualize happiness, passion, and joy in their teaching and personal lives.
Cultivate the habits of mind and body to remain calm in chaotic teaching moments, see student behavior through the lens of compassion and curiosity, and leverage stress as prime opportunities to stoke core competencies of adult SEL and Well-Being.
Thank you to Hennepin County Public Health for making this training possible so we can take CARE
of the incredible CARE-GIVERS
in our schools.