Stop Talking About Wellbeing: A Pragmatic Approach to Teacher Workload by Kather

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In a critical consideration of a range of educational research, Kat Howard explores the key factors that form a teacher's role within school, outlining a range of ways that teachers can take ownership of their workload and wellbeing.

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Stop talking about wellbeing, and start taking action to own your workload. As the teacher retention crisis reaches breaking point, and mental health for teachers features regularly in the press, wellbeing has been pushed to the top of the national agenda in a bid for schools to consider how to look after their staff. However, wellbeing is becoming a tokenistic feature within the education sector, as staff participate in compulsory wellbeing-linked activities that have very little impact on their workload or ability to do what they came into the profession to achieve: inspiring young people. In a critical consideration of a range of educational research, Kat explores the key factors that form a teacher's role within school, outlining a range of ways that teachers can take ownership of their workload, and wellbeing through a sense of true job fulfilment. Interviewing expert teachers in their field and taking a Kat provides practical strategies for teachers at any point of their career to take away and implement immediately, in a bid to improve the educational landscape for teachers everywhere.

Author Biography

Kat Howard is founder of Litdrive, an international not-for-profit organisation that provides teaching resources, peer coaching and subject-specific professional development events for English teachers. In addition, Kat is a lead practitioner for More Abe students at a school in Leicestershire. Prior to teaching, Kat held the position of Retail Area Manager for the North West in the financial sector, recruiting, training and overseeing a series of branches for a one of the leading UK banks. She tweets @saysmiss and is a Regional Representative for the MTPT Project, a charity that supports teachers with continuing professional development whilst of parental leave.

Long Description

Stop talking about wellbeing, and start taking action to own your workload.As the teacher retention crisis reaches breaking point, and mental health for teachers features regularly in the press, wellbeing has been pushed to the top of the national agenda in a bid for schools to consider how to look after their staff. However, wellbeing is becoming a tokenistic feature within the education sector, as staff participate in compulsory wellbeing-linked activities that have very little impact on their workload or ability to do what they came into the profession to achieve: inspiring young people.In a critical consideration of a range of educational research, Kat explores the key factors that form a teacher's role within school, outlining a range of ways that teachers can take ownership of their workload, and wellbeing through a sense of true job fulfilment. Interviewing expert teachers in their field and taking a Kat provides practical strategies for teachers at any point of their career to take away and implement immediately, in a bid to improve the educational landscape for teachers everywhere.

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As statistical figures of teachers leaving the profession reaches an alarming level, and teachers' mental health becomes a fundamental concern, wellbeing has been pushed to the top of the national agenda in a bid for schools to consider how to look after their staff.However, wellbeing has become a tokenistic feature within the education sector, as staff participate in compulsory wellbeing-linked activities that have very little impact on their workload or their ability to do what they came into the profession to do: teach young people. With this book, Kat aims to flip the narrative on wellbeing completely.In a critical consideration of research both in and outside of education, Kat explores the key factors of a teacher's role within school, outlining a series of tools that teachers can use to take ownership of their workload, and achieve wellbeing through purposeful job fulfilment. Interviewing experts in the educational sector, Kat provides practical strategies for teachers in a bid to drive instrumental change to workload within schools at a grassroots level, but additionally, a range of case studies for teachers to use to challenge the norm so that we can create a profession built to last.

Details ISBN1912906481 Author Katherine Howard Year 2020 ISBN-10 1912906481 ISBN-13 9781912906482 Format Paperback Imprint John Catt Educational Ltd Place of Publication Suffolk Country of Publication United Kingdom DEWEY 371.10019 Publication Date 2020-01-06 Short Title Stop Talking about Wellbeing Language English Subtitle A Pragmatic Approach to Teacher Workload Pages 396 UK Release Date 2020-01-06 NZ Release Date 2020-01-06 Audience Age 18-99 Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2020-01-05 Publisher Hodder Education We've got this

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