by Self-Care for Teachers Team | Mar 12, 2017 | Teacher Wellbeing Podcast
In this episode, Ellen speaks to Daniel, an Aussie teaching in an International School. We hear his experiences and insights about teaching in a variety of contexts, maintaining health while balancing not only the pressures of the classroom but also language barriers...
by Self-Care for Teachers Team | Mar 8, 2017 | Teacher Wellbeing Podcast
What is Self-Care? What are the barriers to self-care and why do they hold us back? What does teaching and self-care have to do with International Women’s Day? In this episode, Ellen discusses the five facets of self-care, why guilt is the number one self-care...
by Self-Care for Teachers Team | Mar 5, 2017 | Teacher Wellbeing Podcast
In this episode, Ellen interviews Shailee, a high school teacher who took some time away from teaching in order to figure out how to balance her passion for making an impact with having a life of her own. “It’s realising I can be very good at what I do, I can enjoy...
by Self-Care for Teachers Team | Mar 1, 2017 | Teacher Wellbeing Podcast
In this Episode, Ellen shares a children’s story that serves as a helpful reminder when preventing burnout. She also shares a number of useful metaphors to illustrate the point — after all, she never metaphor she didn’t like! Listen on iTunes here. Don’t forget to...
by Self-Care for Teachers Team | Feb 22, 2017 | Teacher Wellbeing Podcast
Oh my goodness, it’s finally here! The Teacher Wellbeing Podcast is LIVE! At this stage there are only 2 ways to listen: via the Whooshkaa player embedded below, or if you’re an Apple user, on iTunes. Hopefully soon I’ll have figured out how to get it into the various...
by admin | Feb 22, 2017 | Teacher Wellbeing Podcast
Oh my goodness, it’s finally here! The Teacher Wellbeing Podcast is LIVE! At this stage there are only 2 ways to listen: via the Whooshkaa player embedded below, or if you’re an Apple user, on iTunes. Hopefully soon I’ll have figured out how to get it into the various...
by admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Teacher Wellbeing Podcast
Oh my goodness, it’s finally here! The Teacher Wellbeing Podcast is LIVE! At this stage there are only 2 ways to listen: via the Whooshkaa player embedded below, or if you’re an Apple user, on iTunes. Hopefully soon I’ll have figured out how to get it into the various...
by admin | Jan 30, 2017 | First Year Teachers, Self-Care
A couple of weeks ago I posed a question in the Self-Care for Teachers Facebook Support Group (now archived) asking what they wish they had known heading into their first week of their first year teaching. I also asked what advice they would give to newbie teachers...
by admin | Oct 23, 2016 | Self-Care
I’m an avid podcast listener. With a 1+ hour commute to work and back, listening to audio makes my mornings and afternoons in the car much more enjoyable. One of my favourite podcasts is Gretchen Rubin’s ‘Happier‘ podcast. A few episodes ago, she and co-host and...
by admin | Jun 11, 2016 | First Year Teachers, Self-Care
At the best of times, teaching is exciting, exhausting, scary and rewarding. First year teachers find it is all of this and more! There are so many new things to learn and so, so much work to do. Non-teaching friends and family don’t really understand the demands of...
