Coming to the end of the term, finalising portfolios, reports and staff changes can all take their toll on educators.
What does this mean for our stress levels?
The stress we might be feeling is not just anxiety about the events themselves - it’s also about the loss of routine and the security that gives us. Time pressures can lead to sleep, exercise and healthy eating disruptions.
What happens when we’re stressed?
Adults might feel overwhelmed, become less patient and become forgetful and distracted with less time to give others.
Children might exhibit behaviours more typical of younger children, have shorter concentration spans showing less capacity to follow instructions, test previously established boundaries, have more heightened emotions (be more likely to cry or act out).
Be You resources
As an educator, your wellbeing is an integral part of a mentally healthy learning community. It also has close links to children and young people's wellbeing and educational outcomes.
There are many Be You resources to help individuals and learning communities build and maintain educator wellbeing. Visit our educator wellbeing page for more information.
The Understand module on the Mentally Healthy Communities domain, is another good place to start.