Cultivating Teacher Renewal

Guarding Against Stress and Burnout

By (author) Barbara Larrivee

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Publication date:

23 October 2012

Length of book:

200 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781475801118

Teachers today are more stressed than ever. It is crucial that teachers develop the tools necessary to keep from falling prey to the potentially destructive effects of stress and burnout. Cultivating Teacher Renewal: Guarding Against Stress and Burnout offers the antidote by providing the knowledge, skills and practices that will keep teachers from surrendering to burnout. Cultivating Teacher Renewal is evidence-based presenting an extensive review of the abundant research on stress and burnout specifically applying it to the teaching profession. This book adopts a comprehensive approach spanning the fields of education, the social sciences, and the neurosciences. The array of strategies offered will help teachers become stress hardy to stay in a renewal cycle by, building up defenses against burnout, successfully negotiating the emotional terrain of teaching, instilling new ways of thinking and behaving to preserve well-being, and limiting stress exposure by exercising healthier choices. This book will also help you to maintain a work-life balance and develop practices to sustain resilience and optimism.

Introduction

PART 1: Understanding the Many Facets of Teacher Stress and Burnout

Chapter 1: The Consequences of Stress and Burnout
Stress and Its Impact
Chapter 2: Job Characteristics and Their Impact on Burnout and Well-Being
Multiple Models for Understanding Burnout and Well-Being
Chapter 3: The Vital Role of Social Support for Counteracting Burnout
The Importance of Perceived Support from Colleagues and Supervisors
Chapter 4: Teaching is Emotional Labor
Chapter 5: Why Teacher Emotions Are Important
PART 2: Becoming Stress Hardy: Guarding Against Burnout

Chapter 6: Approaches to Student and Classroom Behavior Management that Reduce Stress
Classroom Management and Teacher Stress and Burnout
Chapter 7: Modifying Destructive Ways of Thinking
Chapter 8: Changing the Way You Communicate with Yourself
Curbing Stress-Producing Self-Talk
Chapter 9: Learning to Quiet the Mind
Cultivating Mindfulness
The Power of the Breath
Chapter 10: How to Thrive and Flourish: Sustaining Resilience, Optimism, and Hope
Epilogue
References

This is an important book. Teaching is an inherently stressful – and often distressful – experience. Cultivating Teacher Renewal provides a practical and helpful set of guidelines and concrete strategies that will not only support and help teachers who are experiencing significant stress/distress but also promote health and wellness. I hope that all educators have the opportunity to read this book.