Resilience for teachers: ask yourself what you need
Emma Kell from Education Support looks at how school staff can build and maintain resilience. It includes a reflection activity that she often uses when coaching education staff.
Theme: Physical Resilience, Emotional Resilience, Resilient Transitions
Type: Link
Implementation timeframe: Quick Win, Manageable
Emma Kell from Education Support looks at how school staff can build and maintain resilience. It includes a reflection activity that she often uses when coaching education staff.
‘Resilience’ is a tricky term and can be used in all sorts of different ways. It’s important from the outset to be clear about what the terms does – and doesn’t – mean in this context.
Resilience is:
- Healthily and effectively processing the wide range of emotions we experience in our roles.
- Using self-awareness, self-regulation and clear boundaries to ensure our fundamental needs are met so we can function effectively – remembering Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for ourselves as well as our young people.
- Maintaining a sense of perspective and making best use of our best internal and external resources when dealing with challenge.
Resilience is not:
- An acceptable way of excusing or enabling unreasonable or inhumane practices in schools such as excessive workloads and presenteeism.
- A synonym for ‘suck it up – nobody said it would be easy!
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