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Teacher Well-Being: Looking After Yourself and Your Career in the Classroom
Contributor(s): Holmes, Elizabeth (Author)
ISBN: 0415334985     ISBN-13: 9780415334983
Publisher: Routledge
OUR PRICE:   $52.20  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: January 2005
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Annotation: This book provides strategies for teachers wanting to be proactive in dealing with their well-being, stress, and career, and those of colleagues. Drawing extensively from real-life cases, it outlines all the different components that contribute to physical, emotional, spiritual, and mental well-being. This includes good and bad stress, well-being in school, well-being in teaching, the law, enhancing personal development, long-term prevention of negative stress, developing the well-being of career, and other well-being and professional development. The material is presented in a clear, accessible style with checklists, examples, and useful information boxes featured throughout the book.
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - General
- Education | Leadership
Dewey: 371.100
LCCN: 2004004778
Physical Information: 0.51" H x 6.36" W x 9.24" (0.84 lbs) 220 pages
 
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Publisher Description:

All teachers experience negative stress in the workplace whether it is due to pressures of the job whilst at school or the perpetual need to take work home. In this informative book, Elizabeth Holmes provides practical advice and solutions to enable teachers to experience less negative stress in their lives and understand the links between the way they function in the classroom and their personal well-being.

Drawing on real life case studies and providing strategies for teachers wanting to be proactive in dealing with their well-being, stress and career, this book outlines all the different components that contribute to physical, emotional, spiritual and mental well-being. This includes:

* good stress and bad stress
* communication
* enhancing personal well-being at school
* well-being and career development.

Written in a clear and accessible style with plenty of practical examples and advice, Teacher Well-Being is an essential read for all teachers, headteachers and school managers, whether just entering the profession or experienced practitioners.