Gilbert M. Forbes
www.factoidz.com posted 10/13/2011
It’s a danger inherent in a stressful profession but there are ways to avoid exhaustion, says Jennifer Beckles in her article entitled How to Avoid Teacher Burnout published on May 22, 2009. Burnout or exhaustion is a danger inherent in any challenging profession and there’s no getting away from the fact that teaching is a high pressure zone. Almost every teacher is complaining of the ever increasing demand of their work.
Marking alone pupils’ works is considered time consuming. What more the daily lesson and instructional preparations plus the actual daily teaching of pupils and students from the different social strata.Given all of these pressures, preventing burnout is imperative to ensuring that teachers stay on top of their workload, everyone of them. The three As’ below may help.
Alter schedules
Is there a meeting that could be altered? Or maybe you could think about changing your approach to a certain task. Learn to prioritize and utilize the first-thing-first approach.
Avoid unnecessary tasks
Is the meeting necessary? Do you really need to speak to that person this week? Don’t try to be everything to everyone because you can’t be. Don’t take on more responsibilities than you can cope with. Take and volunteer on the areas you are He advises teachers to volunteer up front for the areas they would like to be involved in, otherwise they could get roped into things they find hard to pull out of.
Accept unavoidable tasks
There are things that you need to accept that go with the territory of teaching, like government initiatives, new rules, strategies, techniques or innovations. Instead of spending a lot of time moaning, try not to get uptight about it. Meaning, just follow and work for it, after all, it’s a part of changes, and only changes is constant.
Aside from the three A’s explained above, the following more tips are helpful:
Create Synergy and Share resources
Do you find it difficult to develop lesson plans and instructional materials in a particular learning area? Create a group among yourselves in the same area and share in its development. There are also thousands of available resources from the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education plus a lot more in other sites for those with access to the internet. There are more. Click to continue reading
(Mr. Gilbert M. Forbes had his Bachelors Degree and MA in Educational Management (CAR) from the Philippine Normal University. A campus paper adviser and trainer for 13 years. Currently, he is a school principal in one of the central schools in the Division of Quezon.)
www.factoidz.com posted 10/13/2011
It’s a danger inherent in a stressful profession but there are ways to avoid exhaustion, says Jennifer Beckles in her article entitled How to Avoid Teacher Burnout published on May 22, 2009. Burnout or exhaustion is a danger inherent in any challenging profession and there’s no getting away from the fact that teaching is a high pressure zone. Almost every teacher is complaining of the ever increasing demand of their work.
Marking alone pupils’ works is considered time consuming. What more the daily lesson and instructional preparations plus the actual daily teaching of pupils and students from the different social strata.Given all of these pressures, preventing burnout is imperative to ensuring that teachers stay on top of their workload, everyone of them. The three As’ below may help.
Alter schedules
Is there a meeting that could be altered? Or maybe you could think about changing your approach to a certain task. Learn to prioritize and utilize the first-thing-first approach.
Avoid unnecessary tasks
Is the meeting necessary? Do you really need to speak to that person this week? Don’t try to be everything to everyone because you can’t be. Don’t take on more responsibilities than you can cope with. Take and volunteer on the areas you are He advises teachers to volunteer up front for the areas they would like to be involved in, otherwise they could get roped into things they find hard to pull out of.
Accept unavoidable tasks
There are things that you need to accept that go with the territory of teaching, like government initiatives, new rules, strategies, techniques or innovations. Instead of spending a lot of time moaning, try not to get uptight about it. Meaning, just follow and work for it, after all, it’s a part of changes, and only changes is constant.
Aside from the three A’s explained above, the following more tips are helpful:
Create Synergy and Share resources
Do you find it difficult to develop lesson plans and instructional materials in a particular learning area? Create a group among yourselves in the same area and share in its development. There are also thousands of available resources from the Bureau of Elementary and Secondary Education plus a lot more in other sites for those with access to the internet. There are more. Click to continue reading
(Mr. Gilbert M. Forbes had his Bachelors Degree and MA in Educational Management (CAR) from the Philippine Normal University. A campus paper adviser and trainer for 13 years. Currently, he is a school principal in one of the central schools in the Division of Quezon.)
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