Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress : Practical Skills for Teachers

Finding it difficult to juggle the many challenges of the teaching profession? Bill Rogers, world-renowned expert in classroom management and teacher stress, addresses the normative reality of stress in the teaching profession. The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress is written from the authors own experience of teaching in very challenging schools in Australia and Britain. This book focuses on the issues of challenging children, challenging classes, discipline concerns in todays classrooms and the natural stress these bring to our profession.  The author knows schools well and knows the significant difference colleague support can make to individual teacher coping, professional confidence and wellbeing.  The practices, skills and approaches are used in many schools and are designed to confront stress-causing factors in positive, supportive and practical ways. Through case studies and practical examples, The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress focuses on: building teacher morale and esteem colleague support peer mentoring classroom management building a supportive school environment establishing and maintaining classroom discipline working with disruptive students teacher bullying