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Creating Work-Life Harmony in Teaching
Educator Wellness | K-12
Teachers have heard about work–life balance for years, and for many, the idea has caused nothing but guilt and frustration. After all, the boundaries between “work” and “life” can easily blur, and it doesn’t always make sense to try to devote equal amounts of time and energy to both. Instead of trying to achieve perfect balance at all times, work–life harmony seeks to help every part of your life coexist in a way that’s both satisfying and attainable.
In this course, you’ll learn how to create work–life harmony using an integrated and holistic approach that helps you blend work and play more seamlessly into your life. With an eye on increasing your passion for teaching, you’ll explore effective methods of determining how and where to invest your time and energy, and how to handle disruptions to your schedule. In addition, you’ll get practical tools for managing the time-consuming parts of your job such as emails and paperwork, and for coping with stressors through healthy physical and emotional habits.
Using the techniques from this course, you’ll be able to create a personalized set of practices that will help you maximize what’s most important in your personal and professional life.
Connections to Practice
This course provides the following classroom connections:
- Techniques for understanding the importance of optimizing harmony in your work and home environment
- Methods for recognizing how your job satisfaction and personal life may be suffering due to a work–life imbalance
- Ways to assess your current work–life balance and identify both strengths and areas for growth
- Exercises that help you manage your physical and emotional health in order to maximize your energy, alertness, and focus
- Tools to help you organize your workload and manage your time efficiently
- Practices that help you identify what is most important to your personal and professional growth, and how to direct your time and energy to achieve those goals
Course Objectives
In this course, participants will:
- Examine the benefits of work–life harmony and the detrimental effects on teachers when it is missing.
- Apply specific organizational strategies for managing aspects of workload, including e-mails, paperwork, and other obligations.
- Evaluate different stressors of the work and home environment in order to assess your specific needs.
- Discover healthy physical and emotional habits to improve overall well-being and success at work and at home.
- Develop goals and methods for success at meeting personal and professional needs.
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- Train your staff in as little as eight hours or delve deeper into complex topics in our longer courses.
- Replace in-person PD days with 100% online, self-paced training teachers can complete virtually.
- Get PD tailored to your school's unique needs with our customizable content and flexible solutions.
- Offer higher education rigor and quality designed to give your teachers targeted, relevant training they can apply immediately.
- Increase buy-in and morale by providing teacher choice while maintaining school/district oversight and strategic alignment.
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We intentionally plan and build our course offerings to solve real problems in education. We regularly update our existing catalog and develop new courses based on schools’ needs, trends in K–12 education, and continual feedback from educators. Depending on your needs, you can train your staff in as little as eight hours with our short courses, or delve into complex topics in our longer ones.
Our course writers are content experts with extensive subject matter credentials and classroom experience. They work closely with our development team to build an experience that is relevant, highly practical, and aligned with industry standards. Courses are not just filled with innovative techniques, but also illustrate how to apply these tools in practice. With each course, teachers develop tangible products such as lesson plans or assessments that they can use immediately in their classrooms.
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