Stress Management Tips for Teachers
The stress management process is one of the keys for teachers to have a successful professional life. While professional life has many demands that can make it difficult to manage, stress management provides several ways to manage anxiety. A series of stressful situations that teachers face are: children’s negative attitude towards studying, little authority to carry out their responsibilities, too heavy a workload, feeling dissatisfied by the conflicting demands of their classmates and students, not knowing the method of evaluating teaching and tutoring work, poor working conditions, that is, poorly constructed building with inadequate soundproofing, high noise level and lower level of spending on educational equipment.
Fortunately, there are many stress management techniques that are helpful for teachers to improve their performance. Here are some tips for managing stress.
Avoid overwork, especially when you are tired.
2.Maintain social contacts outside of educational institutions
Think positively (how can I do better next time) rather than negatively (that was terrible, I’d better quit)
4. Learn quickly from mistakes
5.Good communication with the rest of the staff, especially those with whom you work most closely.
6.Don’t get points where you don’t like students
7. Calm analysis of the lessons.
8. Confirm guidelines on how exactly to treat misbehaving students.
9. Make Your Lessons As Well Prepared As Possible
10.Learn to Say “No” – Refuse to Accept Additional Responsibilities
Reject people who stress you out: If someone constantly causes stress in your life and you can’t change the relationship, limit the amount of time you spend with that person or end the relationship entirely.
12. Take control of your surroundings: If the evening news makes you anxious, turn off the TV. If going to the market is an unpleasant task, do your shopping online.
13. Avoid hot topics: If you get angry about religion or politics, cross them off your conversation lists, stop bringing them up, or apologize when it’s the topic of discussion.
14. Browse Your To-Do List – Review your daily schedule, responsibilities, and tasks. Avoid participating in too many extracurricular activities. Distinguish between “should” and “should”.
15. Express your feelings instead of suppressing them
16. Don’t try to control the uncontrollable: Many things in our life are beyond our control, particularly the behavior of other people. Instead of stressing over them, focus on the things you can control, like how you choose to react to problems.
17. Finally, look for the silver lining: as the saying goes, “what doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger.” When faced with major challenges, try to see them as opportunities for personal growth.
Following these tips will greatly help you reduce stress and improve professional performance.