Teacher wellbeing and TIP

I believe that we all agree teaching being very hard work. Still, many of us love it!! And I personally percieve teaching as a crucially important profession as it allows us to help the next generation to learn more effectively on their own. I find Trauma-Informed Practices (TIP) to be my best tool for supporting teachers’ wellbeing because it increases our understaing of others’ (trauma-impacted) behaviors.

Helping students to learn how to learn is a crucial part of formal education (even though it seems to be forgotten in situations where only performance matters). I believe that we must provide support for teachers to understand TIP to sustain in the demanding profession! That’s why I created this one-pager of TIP and SEL so that I remember discuss these with my students often enough:

I think that those instructional practices emphasizing Empowerment (5) and Resilience (7) are the very important ones because they also talk about our growth mindset and finding ways to reframe challenges as opportunities. This is also where teacher well-being lives: having voiuce and choice for teachers is equally important as providing those for students.

SEL skills are fundamental tools for teachers supporting students deeper learning amd building positive learning experiences by providing choices for students so that they can build on their existing knowledge. And helping students to construct their own knowledge by reminding how learning truly is a lifelong process supports their personal understanding (instead of just trying to memorize a bunch of facts). Aiming for deep learning is learning for life. At best, teaching with SEL becomes a collaborative problem-solving process where students are discussing the parts of their own self-regulated learning.