How Principals Manage Stress Strategies For Successful Coping

This Book Offers Contemporary Viewpoints On Stress And Its Management To On-Site Educational Practioners, Stress Researchers And Even Management Trainers.

Drawing on his experience of research and many stress-busting workshops he has run for teachers, the author of this book explains the nature and source of stress, how to pre-empt stress, a range of direct action and palliative coping strategies and what successful schools do to minimize stress on their staff. It aims to be the key to defeating teacher stress.

Ideal for use in teacher workshops, this book provides vital coping and problem-solving skills for managing the everyday stresses of the classroom. Specific strategies help teachers at any grade level gain awareness of the ways they respond in stressful situations and improve their overall well-being and effectiveness. Each chapter offers efficient tools for individuals, as well as group exercises. Teachers’ stories are woven throughout. In a convenient large-size format, the book includes 45 self-monitoring forms, worksheets, and other handouts. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by Sandra M. Chafouleas.

Explores the link between pressure and performance in schools. Shows how you can transform your silent enemy û stress û into your silent partner, and thrive in the process. From the Principals Taking Action series.

First published in 1993. The purpose of this book is to help those who help others. Research has consistently demonstrated that those in the professions, particularly helping professions, have significantly higher levels of stress and burnout. Studies have shown that the profession with the greatest vulnerability to these illnesses is teaching.

Teacher burnout is a growing problem within public school systems. Given that teachers must face a classroom full of students everyday, it is critical that a plan is put into place to prevent and assist with the daily stress of teachers, in which, often leads to teacher burnout (Wood & McCarthy, 2002). The purpose of this professional development plan is to help teachers develop and apply the knowledge necessary to improve their role essential for providing an education that promotes lifelong learning, ensures motivation, and encourages a positive outlook on learning. The intended outcomes of this professional development plan are defined in terms of improved educator practice and long-term goals that focuses on student outcomes.

This book looks at the causes of teacher stress, asks why thousands of teachers are leaving the profession every year and suggests way of preventing and coping.

Restructure your personal and professional priorities by tackling the stresses of managing workplace environments, juggling competing priorities, and balancing personal and professional agendas.