Self-Care Ideas for Teachers

Tips for Teacher Wellbeing

The busyness that comes with starting the new school term can come as a shock to the system when you wish to start your relaxed holiday mode.

Check out our 10 tips for surviving the shift, and for making your wellbeing a priority.

4-7-8 Breathing Exercise to Alleviate Anxiety and Stress

The 4-7-8 breathing is a method, pioneered by Harvard-trained Dr Andrew Weill. It finds its roots in pranayama and is described as a 'natural tranquiliser for the nervous system' helping to quickly reduce tension and allowing the body to relax.

21 Ways to Track Your Mental Health Using a Bullet Journal

Here are some best practices when it comes to using a bullet journal to track your mood, symptoms, medications, sleep, and anything else that can help you stay on top of or improve your mental health.

Stopping Negative Teacher Self-Talk

As a teacher, it is easy to find yourself in a state of being pretty negative at school. Not necessarily with the students, but with other teachers and staff in the building.

The cycle of negative talk-particularly negative teacher self-talk- is one that can consume school buildings in various spots, in entire hallways or sections, and in entire buildings.

5 Podcasts to Eliminate Negative Self-Talk

Talking to yourself isn't a bad thing -- but the fact that up to 70 percent of your words are negative is a very bad thing. By absorbing others' encouraging words and exposing ourselves to different ideas, we can put ourselves in a much more positive headspace.

Here are five podcasts whose hosts will help you do just that.

Managing the Virtual and Hybrid Teaching Workload

Although there’s much about the current situation that we can’t solve, teachers can work to mitigate some of this stress by prioritizing what’s most important—predictability, care, community, and learning.

These are a few strategies that can make the demands of this school year more sustainable over the long haul.

3 Mindfulness Tips for Teachers

We’ve experienced significant change to our daily lives across the world over the few months. One of these is the move from face-to-face teaching in the classroom to teaching online. Kate shares her 3 mindfulness tips for teachers facing big changes in their everyday work lives.

Teachers, Don’t Forget to Take Care of Yourselves During These Stressful Times

Thousands of teachers were already exhausted, overwhelmed, stressed and near burnout before the COVID-19 pandemic. Now many teachers are working even more hours from home than they did before (which seemed impossible) while needing to care for their own children…

Practicing Self-Care During the Coronavirus: 5 Tips for Teachers

As an educator, you may need a reminder that practicing self-care is essential to your well-being, especially during times of uncertainty and transition.

Monthly Self-Care Activities for Teachers

Taking the time to research and implement self-care strategies is probably the last thing you want to do with your time away from school.

The descriptions in the article and included checklist provide you with a different self-care strategy for each month of the year.

Connect and Grow as a Seesaw Pioneer

Become a Seesaw Pioneer to jumpstart your Seesaw community journey and learn within a supportive group of educators.

National Geographic’s Free Online Courses for Educators

Through these courses, educators build their own skills and knowledge so they can foster the mindset of a National Geographic Explorer in their students.

Certification Courses to Enhance Your Remote Teaching

These certification programmes will help you to use the EdTech tools and, more importantly, help you to use them well! They also recognise your efforts with certification badges and extra perks. These courses are available right now and, in most cases, they’re free!