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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
Webinar Well-Being
Webinar Well-Being
Present TeacherTM Webinar Well-Being professional development experiences provide educators with personally relevant, engaging, and interactive mental, emotional, and social-emotional learning experiences in the privacy of their own home.
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Our live webinars do exactly what our face-to-face session aim to do-- create and hold the space for you teachers to connect with their calm, connect with each other, and connect their social and emotional learning to their classroom context.
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Present TeacherTM Webinar Well-Being PD is based on current research on online learning best-practices, adult learning theory, and mindfulness training.
Every 60 or 90 minute webinar includes the following:
20-30 minutes of direct instruction around current teacher well-being research, the origins of educator mental health, and fundamental elements of the core topic.
MIND
BODY
15 minutes of guided mindful movement and meditation practices that ignite the calming parasympathetic nervous system (think slow, gentle mindful movement) and calm a busy mind.
15-20 minutes applying what teachers learned in the session to their teaching practice.
PRACTICE
Teachers will also receive the following support materials:
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Additional mindfulness-based exercises that align with the core topic for educators to practice in their personal life AND their classroom context.
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2 articles that extend the core learning objectives of the session.
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Links to additional online guided meditations and mindful movement videos for extended personal practice.