 Dr. James Ko Teachers and Teaching in Context 2014

 Understand what causes work-related stress for teachers  Learn the importance of ‘everyday resilience’  Understand the five challenges which test teacher resilience  Discuss on strategies to be used to deal with possible stress

P Successful teaching relates to ‘________________’ Teachers need to be passionate and absorbed in the process of teaching and learning. ‘requires more than content knowledge, acts of skilled teaching, or ___________________________________________…’

 Teachers work requires a high level of intellectual and emotional energy (P.16-17)  Developing ____________ _______ o 1. ________ ________ -Strong associations between the combination of individual qualifications o 2. ________ ________ -Talent, and -Frequency and focus of conversations and interactions with peers o 3. ________ ________ -What professionals acquire and accumulate, and -It enables them to make wise judgments in certain circumstances

What challenge teacher resilience:  Work-related stress  ________ ________ and School culture  ________ ________ ________ ________ means to be able to continue to  have the _______ and ________ to be sufficiently resilient,  have determination and other elements for teaching to their best Resilience is not _______________________

________ ________ which test resilience: (P.22-28)  1. Increases in _____ _______  2. _______ _______ o Influence of new technologies  3. The pressures of _______ o Continuing changes in policy  4. __________ ___ __________ o To engage students and to satisfy demands of results-driven agendas  5. ______ _______ _______ o Increased workload

 Group Discussion: o Is teacher resilience an inherited individual trait or is learnt or can be learned? Is resilience a social rather than a psychological construct? o What are the positive and negative factors affecting teacher resilience?  Think about the stresses you may encounter when you go out for block practice and discuss what strategies you will use to deal with the stress.  Categorize the stresses and strategies identified.  Watch this: Social Emotional Learning: Developing students and teacher resilience:  Evaluate which competence you need most.

 Day, C., & Gu, Q. (2014). Why the Best Teaching and Learning in School Requires Everyday Resilience. In C. Day & Q. Gu, Resilient teachers, resilient schools: Building and sustaining quality in testing times (pp ). London; New York: Routledge. (e-book)