As the nationwide awareness and attention continues to surround the importance of mental health awareness, more and more individuals are practicing self-care. Self-care is considered any method or technique that individuals use in hopes to improve their health and well-being throughout their personal and professional dealings. Meaning different professions may practice different self-care methods. This post and accompanying resource will focus primarily on how teachers are approaching self-care. For teachers, making sure that they’re reaching the right physical, emotional and professional understanding of their feelings is important. This is why every self-care strategy has to be individual, as many teachers will require more care in certain areas of their life than others. Whatever the case might be, it’s important for teachers to think about themselves throughout the school year as taking care of themselves will lead to them being able to take better care of their students. Despite how important self-care is and has been for teachers, many remain hesitant about how they can better care for themselves. To learn more about the ways in which you can help yourself and your students, check out the resource coupled alongside this post.
Check out Teacher Self-Care 101, provided by Curriculum Associates; an organization specializing in formative assessment strategies.
