 Dr. James Ko Teachers and Teaching in Context 2014

 Understand what causes work-related stress for teachers  Learn the importance of ‘everyday resilience’  Understand the five challenges which test teacher resilience  Discuss on strategies to be used to deal with possible stress

P Successful teaching relates to ‘what happens next’ Teachers need to be passionate and absorbed in the process of teaching and learning. ‘requires more than content knowledge, acts of skilled teaching, or engaged students to make the difference…’

 Teachers work requires a high level of intellectual and emotional energy (P.16-17)  Developing professional capital o 1. human capital -Strong associations between the combination of individual qualifications o 2. social capital -Talent, and -Frequency and focus of conversations and interactions with peers o 3. decisional capital -What professionals acquire and accumulate, and -It enables them to make wise judgments in certain circumstances

What challenge teacher resilience:  Work-related stress  Teacher absence and School culture  Teacher turnover Everyday resilience means to be able to continue to  have the capacity and capability to be sufficiently resilient,  have determination and other elements for teaching to their best Resilience is not an innate quality or disposition

Five challenges which test resilience: (P.22-28)  1. Increases in social problems  2. Screen cultures o Influence of new technologies  3. The pressures of policy o Continuing changes in policy  4. Standards and accountability o To engage students and to satisfy demands of results-driven agendas  5. Higher demand cultures o Increased workload

 Group Discussion: o Is teacher resilience an inherited individual trait or is learnt or can be learned? Is resilience a social rather than a psychological construct? o What are the positive and negative factors affecting teacher resilience?  Think about the stresses you may encounter when you go out for block practice and discuss what strategies you will use to deal with the stress.  Categorize the stresses and strategies identified.  Watch this: Social Emotional Learning: Developing students and teacher resilience:  Evaluate which competence you need most.

 Day, C., & Gu, Q. (2014). Why the Best Teaching and Learning in School Requires Everyday Resilience. In C. Day & Q. Gu, Resilient teachers, resilient schools: Building and sustaining quality in testing times (pp ). London; New York: Routledge. (e-book)