064. How WE Handle Stress as a Teacher

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Everyone experiences stress, but how we choose to handle stress can determine the impact that it has on your overall happiness and productivity. Most of us view stress with a negative connotation, but stress can in fact be healthy to experience. Consider how diamonds are created. The pressure experienced reveals a beautiful diamond that can last for years to come. When we understand how we respond to stress then we can develop strategies for how we plan on controlling the stress in the long term. Over the years we have experienced a variety of stress as teachers. In this episode, we are sharing some of our tips on how we personally handle stress as teachers. We hope these tips will help you in the same way that they have helped us. In this episode we share: Try and be proactive so that you are not completely blindsided Ask yourself what habits you can put in place not to prevent stress from occurring Create a checklist of tasks you need to complete and place them categories Create a plan for getting it all done Stress comes from worry, so developing a plan will create structure for how you plan on accomplishing your tasks Focus on the one task causing you the most stress Have a productive way to release stress Reevaluate your goals and tasks to stay focused and keep you on the right path SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:13.1	Today's episode is going to be about something we all know about as teachers, and that's stress.
0:20.6	We're going to share our best tips for handling stress
0:23.6	since it's unavoidable. I mean, we can't get past feeling stressed sometimes. We all know it.
0:31.6	And as Bridget said before we started recording this episode, she cries. So we're going to give you
0:37.1	some more productive tips besides just
0:39.0	crying when you're stressed. If you guys listened to our 062 where we talk about our
0:44.9	endograms, we all know that I'm an emotional creature. So it's going to happen. It's inevitable.
0:50.1	Creature was quite the word. Okay. You're welcome. First, let's hear a TSA from a top teacher.
0:56.1	This top teacher says, when I am in a rush or feel stressed, I do sometimes misread emails,
1:01.9	messages, and even lesson plans, and then I go off on the wrong track. Then I have to go back and
1:07.7	redo stuff, which obviously takes more time and can cause embarrassment,
1:12.1	especially now that we have switched to remote lessons. So there are some extra factors to consider
1:17.6	and parents are sitting in on live lessons. I'm trying to just be a bit more focused now with
1:23.5	whatever I'm doing and having all the information at hand doesn't always work.
1:29.3	You know, I completely understand where you're coming from because this is something that
1:34.3	has happened to me and still continues to happen to me when I feel stressed. I think keeping tasks
1:40.8	like during specific times of the day when I know that I'm going to be having like my most
1:45.8	attentive self, which is typically in the mornings is really, really helpful. But I think it's
1:52.8	going to end up happening. And one of the biggest things, and maybe we'll get into this in a little
1:57.7	bit, is just minimizing how much we do within a day, right?
2:02.4	When we minimize that, we're going to make less mistakes. If you have a lot of different
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