The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress: Practical Skills for Teachers (The Essential Guides) - Softcover

Rogers, Bill

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140826174X ISBN 13: 9781408261743

Publisher: Longman, 2011

Synopsis

Finding it difficult to juggle the many challenges of the teaching profession?

Bill Rogers, world-renowned expert in classroom management and teacher stress, focuses on peer-support to show you how to reduce stress levels, achieve a work-life balance and be a successful classroom teacher in The Essential Guide to Managing Teacher Stress.  This is your definitive guide to coping with the stresses of the teaching profession and is designed to confront stress-causing factors in positive, supportive and practical ways.

Whether it’s the behaviour of a challenging class, the volume of paperwork or difficult relationships with colleagues causing you stress, Bill Rogers has the advice you need to make a difference.

About this title

About the Author

Bill is a leading voice worldwide in the areas of classroom management and teacher stress, and has authored some of the market’s best-known texts in this area, including ‘Classroom Behaviour’ (Sage), ‘Behaviour Recovery’ (Sage), ‘Cracking the Hard Class’ (Sage) and our own title, ‘You Know the Fair Rule’. He has worked in every area of education (primary, secondary and further education) conducting in-service programmes for teachers, lecturing widely at teacher training colleges and Universities, working with parent groups and students in schools. He now works as a consultant, specialising in these areas, as well as lecturing regularly and providing training in Australia, New Zealand and the UK.

From the Back Cover

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 author’s 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 today’s 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

Edition details

• Publisher: Longman
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 140826174X
• ISBN 13: 9781408261743
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 256