Ideal for use in teacher workshops, this book provides vital coping and problem-solving skills for managing the everyday stresses of the classroom. Specific strategies help teachers at any grade level gain awareness of the ways they respond in stressful situations and improve their overall well-being and effectiveness. Each chapter offers efficient tools for individuals, as well as group exercises. Teachers? stories are woven throughout. In a large-size format with lay-flat binding for easy photocopying, the book includes 45 self-monitoring forms, worksheets, and other handouts. Purchasers also get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials. This book is in The Guilford Practical Intervention in the Schools Series, edited by T. Chris Riley-Tillman.

This text offers simple, proven tactics to help manage the stresses of being a classroom teacher. Tactics discussed include employing healthy practices that positively affect mindset; identifying and using one's ideal professional pace; exploiting intrinsic preferences for how to get work done; and making food and exercise choices that will better fuel the mind and body.

Does stress keep you up at night? Is there never enough time to do what you want and need to do at school and at home? Veteran educators Nora Mazzone and Barbara Miglionico have been there, too. Here, they offer simple, proven tactics to help you manage the stresses of being a classroom teacher. Learn how to: employ healthy practices that positively affect your mindset; react, generalize, and maintain to create a positive environment; identify and use your ideal professional pace; exploit your intrinsic preferences for how to get the work done; make food and exercise choices that will better fuel your mind and body; choose to act now so that you can look forward to entering the classroom every day for many years and finding and keeping a healthy balance between work and home.

Does stress keep you up at night? Is there never enough time to do what you want and need to do at school and at home? Veteran educators Nora Mazzone and Barbara Miglionico have been there, too. Here, they offer simple, proven tactics to help you manage the stresses of being a classroom teacher. Learn how to * Employ healthy practices that positively affect your mindset * React, generalize, and maintain to create a positive environment * Identify and use your ideal professional pace * Exploit your intrinsic preferences for how to get the work done * Make food and exercise choices that will better fuel your mind and body Choose to act now so that you can look forward to entering the classroom every day for many years and finding and keeping a healthy balance between work and home.

Drawing on his experience of research and many stress-busting workshops he has run for teachers, the author of this book explains the nature and source of stress, how to pre-empt stress, a range of direct action and palliative coping strategies and what successful schools do to minimize stress on their staff. It aims to be the key to defeating teacher stress.

Research shows that stress in the crucial early years of a child's life can pose dramatic, lasting challenges to development, learning and behaviour. This is the practical book early childhood professionals need to recognize stress in young children, and intervene with proven relief strategies before pressures turn into big problems. Developed by celebrated early childhood expert Alice Sterling Honig, this guidebook helps readers address the most common causes of stress in a young child's life, including separation anxierty, bullying, jealousy, and family circumstances. Educators and childcare providers will: understand key factors that influence a child's stress level; choose from a wide range of stress-busting techniques; personalize stress-busters to meet the needs of individual children; skillfully use stress-reducing strategies with groups of children from diverse backgrounds; harness the power of storytelling to model solutions to problems and help children address negative feelings; and avoid burnout by handling the stresses in their own adult lives. Memorable stories inspired by Dr. Honig's 30+ years of experience show readers how these stress-busters can make a real difference in children's lives, and the questions at the end of each chapter are ideal aids for self-study or professional development courses. Packed with down-to-earth, easy-to-use ideas, this empowering book gives professionals the tools they need to conquer stress in any early childhood setting, so children can develop the early social and academic skills they'll need to succeed in school.

Declining academic performance, along with a growing apathy of students toward the value of education, demonstrates that students in the United States public education system do not recognize the value of a positive experience in middle schools. A plethora of research and writing has been done on elementary schools and secondary schools, but middle school education, as a whole, has been left behind. For this reason, there is the need for current research on all aspects and topics that may contribute to middle school student success. Promoting Positive Learning Experiences in Middle School Education focuses on the ideal conditions for maximizing student success and engagement in middle school education. The chapters take a deeper look into the modern tools, technologies, methods, and theories driving current research on middle school students, their teachers, their classroom environment, and their learning. Highlighting topics such as curriculum reform, instructional strategies and practices, effective teaching, and technology in the modern classroom, this book is ideally intended for middle school teachers, middle school administrators, and school district administrators, along with practitioners, stakeholders, researchers, academicians, and students interested in middle school education and student success.