1 - Soporific Scrabble score
The value of developing soporific conditions.
2 - Snakes, not ladders
Gain an accurate perception of your day, your week, your year.
3 - Dobbie doubts
Don’t become overly critical of yourself.
4 - A coup for chickens
The importance of sleep for your overall resilience.
5 - Nyctinastic at night!
What you can learn from plants that gradually close at night.
6 - Otter and otter
Keep yourself anchored like sea otters do.
7 - The many faces of a dodecahedron
Consider things from different perspectives – from all ‘faces’.
8 - A working factorial
How adding an exclamation mark can make a big difference!
9 – Lotions, potions & creams
It would be good to visit the ‘Mind Shop’, as well as the ‘Body Shop’.
10 - Hooking up a hose
How a strong connection is crucial to the flow of ideas.
11 - The rubric of Rubik
How a methodical approach can solve seemingly complex problems.
12 - Parking parameters
At times you feel like you can’t stop - but you can!
13 - Pixelated picture
How zooming out of Hanje puzzles gives you the full picture.
14 - Infinity, and more?
If you are making continuous loops, you need to stop and pause.
15 - Oh, how the chocolate flows!
‘Top yourself up’ in order to have enough to go around for others.
16 - Scotoma – we’ve all got one!
How to overcome your ‘blind spots’ even though they are still there.
17 - Shaken, yet undeterred!
Gradually dissipate the inevitable ‘fizz’ in your life.
18 - Tea – the drink, or who we drink with?
Sharing a cuppa can teach you the benefits of pausing.
19 - Lorry limits
Learn your limits and let others know what they are.
20 - Strike a chord
Consider what you want to convey, but also how you convey yourself.
21 - Is your teaching sparkling, or flat?
Get the autonomy you need to make your teaching sparkle.
22 - Binary barcodes
You sometimes see things as a one, or a zero, but is this accurate?
23 - Henry’s pail
You can be more effective if you ‘fix’ the ‘hole in your bucket’.
24 - The hole in the wall
How to better manage the amount you ‘draw out’ of your account’.
25 - Mustard and cress
The benefits of delayed gratification.
26 - Length times width
Change your perspective to alter your perceived ideas.
27 - Getting to the root of the problem
What you see on the surface, is not the whole picture.
28 - Frogs and mortar
Build on firm foundations and add a ‘brick at a time’.
29 Set-top teaching
‘Press Pause’ to allow yourself a mental break.
30 Skinny, flat, or full fat?
Ensure your teaching is the best that it can be.
31 - Do less, well!
Focus on one thing at a time and do that thing well.
32 - Fearful of failing
Fear of failure (atelophobia) will stifle your chances to flourish.
33 - The keystone experiences
Share the stress – what you can learn from the construction of arches.
34 - The sycamore spin
How feeling ‘in a spin’ will end when you come ‘back down’ to earth.
35 - Reservoir reserves
Hold something back for those ‘just in case moments’.
36 - Rucksack requirements
Coping with the ‘weight of responsibility’ that you carry around.
37 - Mix and match
Listen out for the sounds you need and zone out the ones you don’t.
38 - Job list shuffle
Prioritise your workload and get started with that first job.
39 - Happily ever after?
Enjoying the journey leads to a positive ending.
Biography
David Gumbrell is an educational consultant, working in schools to support teachers with their resilience and also with teacher training providers and student teachers. He delivers INSET days, one-to-one coaching sessions, and speaks at headteacher conferences. Drawing on over 20 years of teaching experience, including 7 years as a headteacher, and research conducted at Kingston University, he is well placed to nurture the development of those new to the profession - as well as those who have been teaching for a little longer) He understands how precious time is for teachers and wanted to create a resource that made the best use of this.
