Advancing Well-being By Anna Hasper, Freelance Teacher Trainer & Education Consultant, Macmillan Education
MINDFULNESS FOR TEACHERS
If we want to support our students’ well-being, first we need to take care of our own well- being! In the sessions below, Karen Liebenguth and Sarah Mercer focus on teacher well-being. Both sessions include practical mindfulness techniques that will support you in navigating the ups and downs of day-to-day work life, lower your stress levels and enable you to take care of your well-being.
MINDFULNESS TO SUPPORT TEACHER WELL-BEING AND RESILIENCE IN DAY-TO-DAY WORK LIFE by Karen Liebenguth
WHAT IS WELL-BEING? Looking after your well-being is key if you want to live life to its fullest. Well-being relates to how we feel, physically, mentally and emotionally, not only in our professional context but also in our personal life. To promote positive emotions and an overall sense of life satisfaction, it is important to explore different ways of enhancing a sense of well-being for teachers and students. Practising mindfulness and developing social and emotional skills can strengthen various aspects that contribute to a satisfied life.
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Mindfulness involves directing our focus to be truly aware and present in the now. This might sound easy, but many people have overactive minds and instead of being fully present in the here and now, they are thinking about the past or worrying about the future. This can make people anxious and stressed, which is unhelpful for learning. Integrating mindfulness into the classroom helps learners to develop skills to manage everyday life stresses, in and beyond the classroom, so they feel less overwhelmed by what’s going on around them. Research has shown that mindfulness techniques better equip individuals to deal with life’s challenges and regulate their emotions, which can enhance both students’ and teachers’ overall emotional and mental well-being and academic performance. Mindfulness allows learners to calm themselves, regulate their emotions and refocus their attention on what matters the most in class: their learning.
STRATEGIES TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT LANGUAGE TEACHER WELL-BEING by Sarah Mercer
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People with well-developed social and emotional skills are better able to cope with negative emotions, challenging relationships and managing daily challenges. They do not only survive in life, but they also thrive! However, skills like regulating our emotions, being self-aware and socially aware, and maintaining positive relationships are not innate, so patterns that enable these skills to be used actively in daily life need to be developed. Increasing these skills will not only enhance people’s performance in life, it will also increase the quality of our social interactions, in the classroom and beyond.
Emma Reynolds explains different states of mind we can bring into the classroom and shows techniques teachers can use to mindfully explore these emotions. ADVANCING LEARNING CAFE by Emma Reynolds
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