Teacher Wellbeing | Ac-Ed

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Are you hiding how you feel?

I want to add to the discussion about teacher wellbeing, to explore the signs and symptoms and then offer some practical advice from my own experience.

How are you doing, deep down?

How are you doing? I
don’t mean the casual “How are you?” question that we answer politely with
“Fine, and you?” I have written this
article to flag up how easy it is to slide into routines and practices that are
bad for us as teachers and what we can do about it.

To judge your wellbeing I have a question for you but you
need to be brutally honest in your reply.

“How do you feel the night before
starting the school week?”

It’s Sunday evening and you begin to mentally go through the
week ahead. There are bound to be challenges and outstanding tasks as well as
new deadlines to…

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