During the three day conference, one seminar that really stood out to me was called Building Resilience: A Workshop for K-12 Teacher Well-Being which was run by Adriana Lucchetta. In this seminar, the primary issue she raised was teacher burnout and the various challenges we face on a daily basis that can negatively impact our ability to teach over time. Within this topic, she spoke in depth about how ensuring our students' success and understanding them better can help ease the issues that occur in the class ultimately leading to burnout. We brainstormed reasons or factors that affected or hindered student success such as a turbulent home life, responsibilities the students may have at home, trouble at school, etc. Learning about these potential issues will affect my teaching practice in the future because as an educator, I would want to support my students and be able to handle any issues that arise while still trying to avoid burnout.
Often times, it can be difficult not to experience fatigue or exhaustion when you are also having to deal with external issues or behavioural outburst as we try to teach lessons. However, through Adriana, I was able to learn more about why these issues take place and how we as educators can help use our voice and knowledge to help bridge any gaps that can occur in class. What I learned related to my previous educational experiences because I have experienced the same struggle to teach and balance external issues that happen in class and have seen how exhausting this can be over time. Adriana mentioned how important it can be to use mantras, have tools that we personally can rely on to be uplifted, and not to carry one bad day into the next day and to treat each day as a new opportunity. One resource that can provide more insight into ways to avoid teacher burnout through managing difficult behaviours is: How to Prevent Burnout and Disengagement in the Classroom - Insights to Behavior.
No comments:
Post a Comment