Burnout, stress, and fatigue impact heavily on the engagement of educators, which in turn impacts on the quality of education students receive. Although educators face enormous challenges in their roles, the difficulty of the profession can be eased by recognising and responding to cultural enablers that ameliorate the impacts of stress on the teaching profession. Positive psychology mechanisms are a good start, but teachers need school specific support and recognition. In this program, participants will work on understanding the ways that school systems and staff can develop the conditions that lead to teacher wellbeing.
Program Outcomes:
Participants will learn about the research behind teacher wellbeing, social capital, and collective efficacy;
Participants will learn why teacher wellbeing is important for student wellbeing;
Participants will be expected to engage in reflective practices to help them understand how cultural conditions impact on school health by using a framework for application which will be provided to them during the session;
Participants will develop strategies that can help them to enabling conditions for wellbeing at self, school, and system level.
Target Audience:
Teachers, head teachers, heads of school, school leaders.