Module 2: Well-Being and Self-Care
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Competency
Self-Awareness is the ability to accurately recognize one’s own emotions, thoughts, and values and how they influence behavior.
Self-Management includes regulating one’s emotions, stress management, self-control, self-motivation, and setting and achieving goals.
Responsible Decision-Making refers to considering the well-being of self and others; recognizing one’s responsibility to behave ethically; basing decisions on safety, social, and ethical considerations; evaluating realistic consequences of various actions; and making constructive, safe choices for self, relationships, and school. (Iowa’s SEL Competencies)
Learning Outcomes
Examine impact of social isolation/stress/health/safety needs, interruption of basic needs.
Identify self-care activities to support well-being for self .
Recognize when additional support is needed.
What I will DO in this module:
Identify self-care needs and determine ways to adjust one’s self-care routine.
LEARNING PATHWAY
Use the Module Slide Deck in the Module Resources below to begin your learning pathway.
The learning tasks below are in a similar order to the order of the Module Slide Deck, and slide numbers are often referenced for your convenience.
The intent of this module is to provide participants with a foundational understanding of Educator Well-Being and Self-Care. No prerequisite knowledge is needed to engage in this learning.
LAUNCH
DO
Read the Taking Care of Yourself article. Think about the following areas of self-care:
Physical Self-Care
Spiritual Self-Care
Psychological Self-Care
Social Self-Care
Emotional Self-Care
Professional Self-Care
LEARN
THINK ABOUT
Watch the video linked on Slide 12.
In what ways do you see similarities to yourself in this video about self-care?
TALK ABOUT
Now that you’ve identified needs and potential self-care strategies to address those needs, what are one or two things you’ll do tomorrow and beyond to address those needs?
REFLECT
DO
Activity 1: Eight Steps to Decrease Distress and Increase Well-Being: Reality Acceptance
It is easy to get caught up in the ‘should’ve, could’ve, would’ve’s’ or engaged in an endless cycle of contingencies for the future. Focusing on the here, now and what we can control will help decrease the sense of being overwhelmed and stressed.
Review the Eight Steps resource on decreasing distress and increasing well-being.
During the next few weeks take a few minutes each day to work through the steps. Recognize the events that are weighing you down and outline a plan for how you can cope with them.
DO
Activity 2: Care for the Caregiver: Guidelines for Administrators and Crisis Teams
Looking for a resource to support your leadership team/s in better understanding the self-care needs of your educators?
Review the Care for the Caregiver resource from the National Association of School Psychologists.
Plan time with your leadership team to unpack how these uncertain times have impacted your staff.
COLLABORATE
How will your team support educator self-care now and moving into the school year?
MODULE RESOURCES
CHECKPOINT
Checkpoints include self-assessments, quick checks, peer feedback opportunities, etc. This is a way for you to determine if you are ready to move to the next module and/or if you would like to go deeper or return to previous modules for additional learning or practice.
Self-assessment
Revisit the learning outcomes for this module:
Examine impact of social isolation/stress/health/safety needs, interruption of basic needs
Identify self-care activities to support well-being for self
Recognize when additional support is needed
Would you feel comfortable discussing each of these with a colleague or might you need to revisit a section of learning in this module?
CELEBRATION OF LEARNING
Option #1: Use the Celebration of Learning to: synthesize key ideas gained, network with others inside and outside of your district, crowdsource knowledge and/or design ideas, and extend your learning beyond this module.
Option #2: With a colleague from another building in your district, share something that resonated with you from this module. Some prompts you may use are:
I re-learned….
I was surprised that…
I plan to practice the 10 tips of self-care by…..
