Teacher Well-Being Ideas

We’ve got to build positive school cultures if we want teachers to be able to thrive. If you’re looking to boost morale, promote well-being and increase motivation, here are some ideas you can use yourself, with your team or for the whole staff body.

I’m out to help teachers feel good and teach at their best. I believe that we can achieve this through four key areas:

Being purposeful - Having intent behind our actions and connecting with what’s important with us to stay motivated

Being in control - Focusing on what’s within our locus of control and building helpful habits into our daily routines

Being inspired - Being a learner at heart, open to new ways of doing things, taking opportunities to grow and keeping our teaching ‘fresh’

Knowing we’ve done enough - Valuing ourselves and fostering a school culture of positivity and celebration where we are all happy and proud to call ourselves teachers.

It’s a shame that ‘well-being’ initiatives and activities have a reputation for ‘missing the mark’ or feeling tokenistic because we have an undeniable need to see more of them in our schools. We’ve got to get the talk going, engage in authentic experiences and really build well-being into our school cultures so it’s a given - not a bonus.

I hope you find this resource helpful and that, at the very least, it sets the wheels in motion for building a community of happy and supportive teachers at your school. Together let’s make schools the positive environments they should be and make teaching the uplifting experience we all want it to be.

Go well, team! ☺

Be purposeful teachers
Who are in control
Feel inspired
And know they’ve done enough.

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