Teacher Well-Being: Looking After Yourself and Your Career in the Classroom

ISBN-13: 9780415334983 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 220 str.

Elizabeth Anne Holmes; E. Holmes;Holmes Elizabet

Opis

All teachers experience negative stress in the workplace whether it is due to pressures of the job whilst at school or the perpetual need to take work home. In this informative book, Elizabeth Holmes provides practical advice and solutions to enable teachers to experience less negative stress in their lives and understand the links between the way they function in the classroom and their personal well-being. Drawing on real life case studies and providing strategies for teachers wanting to be proactive in dealing with their well-being, stress and career, this book outlines all the different components that contribute to physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being. This includes: * good stress and bad stress
* communication
* enhancing personal well-being at school
* well-being and career development. Written in a clear and accessible style with plenty of practical examples and advice, Teacher Well-Being is an essential read for all teachers, headteachers and school managers, whether just entering the profession or experienced practitioners.

Spis treści

1. All about Well-being 2. Stress, the good and the bad 3. Well-being and stress in teaching: the obvious 4. Well-being and stress in teaching: the hidden 5. All about communication 6. Enhancing personal well-being at school 7. Well-being and career development 8. Well-being and life - the wider picture 9. At a glance... the way to well-being

O autorze

Elizabeth Holmes is a freelance writer and researcher. She is author of The Newly Qualified Teacher's Handbook also published by RoutledgeFalmer.