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Martin Burrett

Teaching about the "stress bucket" in schools by @sam_oldale - 19 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 24 Aug 16 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 24 Aug 16
     
    A few months ago I went on a Mental Health First Aid in schools course. We learnt about the stress bucket. So it goes like this. Basically we all have a stress bucket. If it gets too full as the stresses of life flow in to it, it will over fill and over flow and we will begin to feel overwhelmed. Coping strategies are like a tap on the bucket and should be used to allow some of the stress to be released and will prevent us from becoming overwhelmed. If our stress bucket gets too full we can suffer from mental ill health. Some life events such as bereavement, illness etc. can cause our buckets to overflow quite quickly but sometimes small life stressors can build and accumulate also causing our buckets to fill...
Martin Burrett

12 things teachers can do to help reduce stress - 73 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 02 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 02 Jan 17
     
    Yay, another new year! Where does the time go? Being a teacher is a stressful job, but one of the most rewarding vocations available. Sometimes, it is possible to lose sight of the important things in life, as the stress of the job takes over your life. We all make resolutions with good intentions, but reducing work stress is critical for ensuring that the job doesn't absorb every waking moment in your life. Below are 12 suggestions on how teachers (and school leaders) can reduce stress, for themselves, for colleagues, and for pupils. Some of the suggestions might seem obvious, but it's nice to be reminded, and to allow you to reflect on opportunities you have to reduce some of the stress in your life.
Martin Burrett

Mental Health: Coping with Stress - 5 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 17 May 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 17 May 18
     
    "There are lots of stressful careers, but teaching combines the elevated baseline of chonic stress of the day to day, coupled with bouts of intensely stressful events. Inspections, staff meetings, work scrutiny, piles of unmarked books in the boot of your car, all can cause stress and anxiety. Plus the current culture of the profession, where boasts about the long hours individuals work are wore like medals rather than alarm bells, make us feel inadequate unless we are working ourselves to the verge of medical exhaustion."
Jeff Andersen

Reading reduces stress levels - 20 views

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reading and stress

shared by Jeff Andersen on 15 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Jeff Andersen on 15 Feb 17
     
    There are many ways to reduce stress levels; going for a walk, listening to music or drinking tea are all popular ways of winding down. None of these will come as much of a surprise, but have you considered the stress reducing benefits of regular reading? A 2009 study by the University of Sussex found that reading for just six minutes can reduce stress levels by up to 68%. (The Telegraph, March 2009)
Martin Burrett

Mindfulness in the Classroom by @Ed_Tmprince - 26 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 05 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 05 Jan 18
     
    "The development of mindfulness has, at its heart, the reduction of stress hormone levels. Teaching children a number of Mindfulness strategies allow children to find the ones that best meet their needs and successfully reduces their stress and anxiety. Massage and the power of touch are naturally relaxing and are ways to reduce these stress hormones. Maria Hernandez-Reid is a researcher at the Touch Research Institute. She says that the lowering of stress hormones not only reduces the feelings of anxiety but also supports a healthier immune system."
Peter Beens

BBC News - Why is teaching so stressful? - 115 views

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shared by Peter Beens on 04 Nov 11 - No Cached
  • "When a teacher becomes highly stressed, then their capacity to manage the classroom and relationships is often impaired."
  • teaching is the most stressful occupation there is
  • About 80% of teachers complain about stress at work and thousands of teachers leave the profession every year - predominantly due to stress
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  • "In a classroom of 25 to 30 pupils, all with individual needs, you have to be on top of your game - particularly if you have a challenging class."
  • "In badly managed schools, head teachers are adding to the stress.
  • "Time away from the classroom is sometimes the best way to safeguard the well-being of individual teachers and prevent good teachers from leaving the profession altogether.
  • "Sickness absence decreases - and therefore standards of education for pupils improve - when schools implement meaningful policies that protect and enhance teachers' well-being."
Martin Burrett

Simple Strategies for Reducing Stress - A guide for Educators by @digicoled - 23 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 19 May 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 19 May 18
     
    "There are many components that make teaching stressful, such as teaching for tests and hoping the pupils will perform well, marking and giving meaningful feedback quickly. Also, there are 'Pinch points' in the year where lots seem to come at once! Even when confronted with a group of students, when you get one of those classes where none of them cares or see the point no matter how hard you try to convince them otherwise. Ultimately, teaching is a massively important role in society, so there's a lot riding on the profession which equates to a lot of pressure/stress. It's just fortunate that most of the time the wins outweigh the rest."
C CC

A Busy Teacher's Guide to Reduce Stress | UKEdChat.com - Supporting the #UKEdChat Education Community - 40 views

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shared by C CC on 15 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • C CC on 15 Mar 14
     
    Tips for reducing STRESS!! OK?
Glenn Hervieux

6 Ways to Quickly Restore Sanity to Your Day - Stressbusters - 99u - 65 views

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shared by Glenn Hervieux on 12 Jul 15 - No Cached
  • Glenn Hervieux on 12 Jul 15
     
    What are your go-to stress busters when the pressure is on? This article provides some great ideas for how to interrupt stress and create better health in the workplace.
Martin Burrett

Exams: Use the motivation, lose the stress by @rhcaseby - UKEdChat - 11 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 29 May 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 29 May 18
     
    "Ten tips to beat exam stress"
Martin Burrett

Teachers Are Stressed: Trust me, I'm married to one! by @johnkaiser13 - 25 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 13 Jan 18 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 13 Jan 18
     
    "Students typically feel during the semester that they are the only ones who are "stressed out". Well, I can safely say that this is NOT TRUE by any measure. How do I know? Because I am married to a professor of chemistry. Here are a couple of 'end of the semester' observations for students to ponder."
Martin Burrett

Reducing Stress for All - UKEdChat Summary - 13 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 18 Nov 16 - No Cached
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Keith Rowley

Mindfulness meditation benefits and changes brain structures in 8 weeks - 2 views

www.naturalnews.com/031228_meditation_brain.html

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shared by Keith Rowley on 20 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • In a study published in the January 30 edition of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers concluded that an eight week mindful meditation practice produced measurable changes in participants' brain regions associated with memory, sense of self, empathy and stress. This is the first study to document meditation-produced changes in the brain's grey matter over time.
  • Previous research has documented structural differences between the brains of experienced mediation practitioners and individuals with no history of meditation. These brain changes included thickening of the cerebral cortex in areas associated with the integration of emotions and attention. However, earlier studies were unable to document that those brain differences were actually caused by meditation.
  • mindfulness meditation (which focuses on nonjudgmental awareness of sensations, feelings and state of mind)
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  • significant improvements in the meditators' stress levels compared with pre-participation responses -- and reductions in stress also were correlated with decreased grey-matter density in the amygdala, part of the brain which is known to play an important role in anxiety and stress.
  • ncreased grey-matter density in the hippocampus (an area of the brain known to be important for learning and memory) and in structures associated with self-awareness, compassion and introspection.
  • guided meditation
  • http://www.nmr.mgh.harvard.edu/~lazar/
Javier E

College Freshmen Stress Levels High, Survey Finds - NYTimes.com - 13 views

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shared by Javier E on 27 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • In the survey, “The American Freshman: National Norms Fall 2010,” involving more than 200,000 incoming full-time students at four-year colleges, the percentage of students rating themselves as “below average” in emotional health rose. Meanwhile, the percentage of students who said their emotional health was above average fell to 52 percent. It was 64 percent in 1985.
  • “More students are arriving on campus with problems, needing support, and today’s economic factors are putting a lot of extra stress on college students, as they look at their loans and wonder if there will be a career waiting for them on the other side.”
  • “Students know their generation is likely to be less successful than their parents’, so they feel more pressure to succeed than in the past,” said Jason Ebbeling, director of residential education at Southern Oregon University. “These days, students worry that even with a college degree they won’t find a job that pays more than minimum wage, so even at 15 or 16 they’re thinking they’ll need to get into an M.B.A. program or Ph.D. program.”
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  • For many young people, serious stress starts before college. The share of students who said on the survey that they had been frequently overwhelmed by all they had to do during their senior year of high school rose to 29 percent from 27 percent last year.
  • The gender gap on that question was even larger than on emotional health, with 18 percent of the men saying they had been frequently overwhelmed, compared with 39 percent of the women.
Keith Rowley

Meditation Research FAQ - 1 views

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shared by Keith Rowley on 20 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • What I can say is that the MBSR program has been around for 30 years and there have been hundreds of clinical trials indicating that it is effective for reducing stress and many (though not all) clinical symptoms.
  • All the participants in our study went through the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction course (MBSR) developed at the Center for Mindfulness
  • I can't stop thinking/my mind won't calm down/"Unusual phenomena" bother me when I meditate/I can't meditate—what should I do? OR When I meditate, I experience "unusual phenomena". What is going on? Is this an advanced state?
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  • The Buddha compared the mind to the strings of a lute (a guitar-like instrument): the lute can not be played if the strings are too tight or too loose. Similarly when attention is either too tight or too loose, you can't properly meditate. When attention is too loose, the mind wanders and you get lost in thought. Try narrowing your focus in different ways (e.g. just inhales instead of the whole breath, focus on a smaller area around your nose). Some people do a few minutes of yoga or loving kindness (metta) practice at the start of their meditation period to focus the mind, before switching to breath awareness meditation. Some people find focusing on sounds easier than focusing on breathing.
  • The goal is not to try to change anything, but to be aware of the desire to change it and then see if we can just relax and be ok with it even if it doesn't change. Are we trying to quiet the storm, or are we trying to find peace within the storm?
Matthew Callison

Being a Healthy & Strong Educator - 1 views

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shared by Matthew Callison on 24 Jun 11 - No Cached
  • Matthew Callison on 24 Jun 11
     
    Being a teacher and having many friends that are teachers, I know we all struggle with a great deal of stress and have trouble finding time to take care of ourselves during the school year. Over this past year I have been using the P90X Home Fitness Program and I highly recommend it for any busy,
meghankelly492

Music performance anxiety and occupational stress amongst opera chorus artists and their relationship with state and trait anxiety and perfectionism - ScienceDirect - 3 views

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  • There has been no study exploring the prevalence or characteristics of MPA among professional choral musicians, who may be considered a vocal analogue of orchestral musicians. There may be systematic differences among different types of musicians regarding the level of performance anxiety experienced.
  • Chorus artists were ideal subjects for the proposed study because they are a clear exemplar of a group of musicians with high performance demands and expectations who have heavy rehearsal and performance schedules.
  • While this study suggests that treatment efforts be directed at reducing MPA rather than occupational stress, further investigation of the relationship between occupational stress and trait anxiety is needed.
Martin Burrett

Study links relationship between teacher burnout and student motivation - 18 views

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shared by Martin Burrett on 22 Nov 17 - No Cached
  • Martin Burrett on 22 Nov 17
     
    "Teacher burnout is regarded as a serious problem in school settings. To date, studies on teachers' stress and burnout have largely centred on teachers' own characteristics, socialisation, and behaviours, but few have explored the connection between teachers' burnout and students' motivation via their own perceptions of teachers' behaviour and emotional well-being."
BalancEd Tech

Will · Let's Make it an Even 300, OK? - 46 views

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  • BalancEd Tech on 24 Sep 12
     
    Now count all the other tests they take. How much stress does that cause? How much learning time is lost?
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