1st Edition
Supporting Teacher Wellbeing A Practical Guide for Primary Teachers and School Leaders
Acknowledgements About the author Introduction Part 1. Understanding wellbeing 1. Why should teachers support their mental health and wellbeing? 2. What do you need to know about wellbeing? Part 2. Strategies for wellbeing 3. Which work-life balance strategies best support wellbeing? 4. What other strategies support teacher wellbeing? Part 3. A personal plan for wellbeing 5. How can you plan for sustained teacher wellbeing? 6. What is my personal plan for wellbeing? References Index
Biography
Suzanne Allies is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Worcester. She has taught in Higher Education for eight years and as a primary teacher for 20 years. Her main passion is to encourage and support the mental health and wellbeing of teachers, trainee teachers, children and adolescents.
'This book provides a practical and reflective tool to support teachers and childcare professionals in evaluating and developing their physical, emotional and mental wellbeing. Its warm and readable style makes it accessible to those in whatever stage of well-being they find themselves. Peppered with examples from personal experience and professional practice, it offers a range of structures and resources to promote wellbeing within the children's workforce. Most helpfully, it gives us permission to engage with these issues, whatever our role in the education system.' –Professor Richard Woolley, Deputy Head of the School of Education, University of Worcester
'As teachers, we rightly put the needs of each child first, but often neglect our own wellbeing. This book is a fantastic resource for school leaders to use personally, as well as for staff, written by someone who has been there herself. The case study examples resound, and the takeaway messages of each chapter help you reflect on your own practice.' –Spencer Morris, Headteacher of Red Hill C of E Primary School
