Don’t Let Teacher Life Consume Your Life: Teacher Self Care Strategies

Don’t Let Teacher Life Consume Your Life: Teacher Self Care Strategies l Miss Rae's Room Social Emotional Learning Teaching Blog

• Don’t let your teacher life consume your personal life!  
  • Make YOU a priority!  
  • Always put yourself on your to-do list.  You are the most important factor in student success.  If you are unhealthy (emotionally, mentally, or physically), you cannot be there for your students!
• Choose healthy!
  • Get plenty of rest, take vitamins, exercise, and always put your health first!
• Exercise!
  • Research has proven it a million times over - exercise helps increase energy, improve concentration, decrease stress, and prevent depression.
• Plan to take a break!
  • Plan to take a break for 5 minutes every hour.  Turn your brain off, meditate, have a healthy snack, take a walk, and be amazed at how rejuvenated you will feel.
• Have self care strategies to combat  stress!
  • Have at least 3 self care strategies for relieving stress that are part of your weekly routine - and then have your secret weapons!
  • Make choices in your life to eliminate stressors.
  • Identify your triggers of stress.  Find strategies to help extinguish or alleviate those triggers.  
• Start and end on a positive note!
  • Set your tone for the day by starting off on a positive note...at home - meditate, workout, take a walk…at school - say “good morning” to staff and students, have a morning routine, sip some tea while you prep for your day...
  • End your day on a positive note...at home - say what you are thankful for today, say a prayer, read a book… at school - have an end of the day routine, prepare for the next day, say what you are thankful for, walk out the door with nothing to bring home...

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