If you’ve read the Skills with Frills blog, but you’d like to hear more…. check out our sister sister, Anxious-Ambition.com – Jo writes regularly with reference to wellbeing, health and fitness, mindfulness, CBT, positive psychology and happiness in general.
For strategic advice, ideas, lesson plans related to Inclusive Teamwork, see Jo’s
4-page pullout in Optimus Educations’ ‘Special Children’ magazine.
Jo is a Wellbeing Columnist for the Times Educational Supplement (TES):
**Click here to go to Jo’s TES Author Page for all articles**
Wellbeing articles for Staff and Students:
How to support and challenge students with anxiety
I’m fed up with being a 24/7 teacher, how do I get some headspace?
3 mindfulness exercises to fit into the school day
Seven exercises you can squeeze into the school day
How to fall asleep – 3 tips for teachers
7 lifestyle hacks for happy teachers
5 tips to stop putting things off
7 Healthy snacks to get you through the day
Two self-help tips for getting out of the stress cycle
How to tackle negative influences: Thoughts on School Dementors
Negative Mindsets to avoid: Unhelpful thought patterns for teachers
8 Tips to Reduce Workload Stress
2 Tips from Children’s Books on Being Happy
3 Rules that Teachers need to Break
3 Tips to beat the Winter Blues
5 Ways to ‘Detox’ in the New Year
Three Teacher Wellbeing Problems & How to Overcome Them
Three things I did to Manage Anxiety
7 Deadly Speaking Sins for Teachers to Avoid
Recipe for Stress – 5 Things we Need to Stop Doing
Why Teachers need Playtime too!
Waiting time isn’t dead time – it’s essential for our Wellbeing
4 Steps to being a Happy Teacher
Want to be happier? Learn to Listen
Four Steps to a Healthier Relationship with Tech
Are Great Expectations Destroying Teacher Wellbeing?
The 5 Signs of Teacher Burnout
The Key to Teacher Wellbeing? A Better Mental Diet
How to Juggle a Teaching Career and a Relationship
4 Ways to Pull Yourself Out of a SATs Spiral
How to Tackle Decision Fatigue
Teachers! You don’t have to Accept being Unhappy… (Getting off the Hedonic Treadmill)
Listening Positions: How are you Listening?
Anxiety is rife amongst Teachers: Here’s how it Feels
Don’t let Teaching make a Monster out of You
Impostor Syndrome: Four Ways to get your Inner-Critic to Pipe Down!
Four Ways to Support Students with Mental Health Problems
Stuck in a Vicious Cycle? Let’s Break it!
5 Ways to Stop Social Media Spoiling your Summer
How to Boost your Emotional Intelligence
A – levels: How to help Students Cope with Disappointment
GCSEs: How to Talk to Stressed-out Students
4 Wellbeing Ideas that could Actually Make a Difference
Are you Feeding the Anxiety Monster?
Getting Outside, No Matter what the Weather
Why we need to work on our What-ifs
‘Closing the Gap’ to a Better You
4 Ways to Reconnect with Fellow Teachers
4 Ways to Give your Brain a Break from Teaching
5 Guaranteed Ways to get Death Stares in the Staff Meeting
4 Common Student Phrases and what they Really Mean
5 Guaranteed Ways to get Death Stares in the Staff Meeting
4 Common Student Phrases and What they Really Mean
Coronavirus: 7 Ways to Protect your Mental Health
3 Tips to Beat Procrastination when working Remotely
4 Reasons Hobbies help Reduce Teacher Stress
How to Battle Shame as a Teacher
4 Free Wellbeing Tools to Support Teachers through Lockdown
How to Maintain Positive Habits in Lockdown
Avoiding Mental Overload in Lockdown
4 Free Apps to help Manage your Anxiety
5 Thinking Habits Teachers Need to Work On
A Spices Approach (Forest School) to post-COVID Catch-up
TES School Leader’s Wellbeing Clinic (monthly in 2020):
How to Help Busy Teachers Improve their Wellbeing
How to keep up Morale when you ‘require improvement’
Coronavirus: 4 Wellbeing Tips for Communicating Remotely with Staff
Coronavirus: How Leaders can Practise Self-Care this Easter
Supporting Staff Wellbeing as they return from Lockdown
Why Communication is Key to Teacher Wellbeing
Supporting Staff as the Lockdown Threat Resurfaces
How to Showcase Wellbeing for Ofsted
Keeping up Morale in Lockdown 2.0
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