Self-Care for Educators

Self-Care for Educators

For the purposes of this module, I define self care as a set of strategies that individuals can take to reduce their own symptoms of stress, burnout, apathy and/or exhaustion. It is important to realize that self-care is only one part of a healthy teaching and learning environment. There are many factors that are out of our control and no amount of self-care can offset a toxic culture, unreasonable expectations, a lack of support from your department, school, or organization or other outside influences like a pandemic, a nationwide racial reckoning, an environmental crisis,  increased gun violence and political upheaval.

• Educators Report Highest Level of Burnout Among All Other Industries (US News and World Reports)
   

Strategies for Preventing and Mitigation Educator Burnout

• 8 Strategies to Prevent Teaching Burnout

• Faculty Members Are Suffering Burnout. These Strategies Could Help

• Exploring faculty burnout through the 2022-23 HMS faculty/staff survey (APA)

• Turnover, Burnout and Demoralization in Higher Ed (Inside Higher Ed)

• The Great Faculty Disengagement

• Overcoming Burnout and Compassion Fatigue in Higher Education. Higher Ed News. Zackal, Jusin (2020).

• Burnout-mitigation Strategies (Chronicle of Higher Ed. Aug 2023)

• The Science of Well-Being Free MOOC (Gratitude, Sleep, Exercise, Social Connection, etc.)

• The Art and Science of Saying "No" - Rebecca Pope-Ruark, PhD, ACC (Powerpoint)

• Could, Not Should (2min) - Daniel Pink's Pinkcast