Systemic pressures in teaching can weigh down and literally change our body shapes. But we can make simple adjustments to support and ensure we don't get impacted and misshapen.

Overwhelm is a sinking ship. When it strikes, you feel like you need to grab a raft to help keep you afloat.

I clocked one day that the walk to my car to start my journey home, was a barrage of thoughts and flash backs of all the things that I felt I had not done well during that day.

I clocked one day that the walk to my car to start my journey home, was a barrage of thoughts and flash backs of all the things that I...

Making the space for self care at the end of term commitments ensures teachers maintain productivity and a more vital sense of wellbeing.

Teaching often requires maintaining classrooms with low and high level behaviours - we cannot add to the load by taking it personally

Do you open the flood gates of self-critique thoughts from comparing to other teachers - we can stop this right now

There is no doubt about it, doubt is a killer. It would be inconclusive to put a finger on how much doubt can enter the life of a...

Teaching requires a precise moment of beginning and end to a lesson; the profession works to timetables and bells all day long. There is the start of the day bell, start of the lesson bell, end of the lesson bell, start and end of food break bells, and the end of the day bell. When we work to the end of the lesson bell, it is common to feel in a hurry to deliver all the required content; and in the case of high school teaching, this can extend to being in a hurry to move to

As teachers, an increasing part of our day is involved with behaviour management. Behaviour management is a major component within the...

As teachers, we often have flexibility in what we wear; it can range from casual, to smart casual, to corporate smart. However, choosing what to wear can often be the best or worst part of our day, and can leave us feeling stressed and anxious either with ‘nothing to wear’ or simply not feeling right in our outfit of choice, or feeling amazing and ready for the day. But have we ever stopped to wonder what it is about the clothes we end up wearing that make a difference …?

Walking is a major part of what is involved with teaching. And it could be easily dismissed because it is like breathing; it just...

As teachers we use our voices all the time. It’s the main resource in our role. But is this as far as we go with this awareness? I know...

There are many things which can put a strain on a teacher’s vocal cords. Obvious examples include having to project voices in order to be heard and administering behaviour management. But there is an aspect of how we speak, that has an impact on the health of our vocal cords. I have often felt the stark difference between a ‘flowing’ lesson that unfolds naturally and a lesson which feels jumpy and a scramble to deliver. Am I at ease with the content that I am presenting o

It is important to pause and give full permission to catch up with those we work with. The school timetable is full. It comprises of 5-6...

Starting a new school year can be anxious for both student and teacher. Student and teacher can be meeting for the first time and there can be consternation from teachers as to the behaviours of the new class/es assigned for the upcoming year. Likewise for the student – will they ‘like’ their new teacher? Teachers are expected to study the data of students and ascertain behaviours, academic achievement and learning difficulties. It’s not uncommon on student free days at the

For a teacher it’s common to feel there is limitless work to be done in a day. The level of attainment and required outcomes, in what...

There are many aspects we can consider which make up the foundations of our classroom. We potentially do not recognise or appreciate how many of these we set up without realising. Our professional standards correctly require teachers to facilitate safe and supportive classrooms, and we achieve this in many ways from the physicality of the room to the quality and tone we set. But have we ever stopped to consider what other standards we are setting beyond these very practical r

One of our go-tos as teachers to get through the day is often food. There are a range of situations and emotions that come our way...