Teaching

In less than 20 minutes each, these six TEDx Talks explore topics like chronic exhaustion, cultural identity, and emotional intelligence, among others.

Stress is an inevitable part of teaching but how you respond to it can spell the difference between a long, rewarding career, and one cut short by burn-out. New research into stress has given rise to some surprising (and even counter-intuitive) strategies to better deal with it.

Cornerstone, a workforce management company, has developed a series of "playlists" to help people — including teachers — adjust to working from home. Topics, including making the transition to online instruction and learning, stress management and working from home, are covered in "bite-sized" videos and downloadable guides. Access is free. Registration is required.

Dropbox has developed free "digital care packages," 25 different folders comprised of activities curated by creators, including artists, designers, foodies, musicians, writers and others. You can send them not just to others but to yourself too.

A short video that will introduce to you using mindfulness -- the focus on the present that calms your mind.

In this article, Patricia A. Jennings explains why teachers should cultivate moment-to-moment awareness of thoughts, feelings, and surroundings.

This site looks at stress as a problem that can be addressed solved, or at least improved, using practical problem-solving methods.

Resources from the Ontario Teachers' Federation focused on many aspects of teacher wellness

This useful article considers how the traumatic experiences of students are passed to teachers as secondary and vicarious trauma. It also suggests ways that teachers can created stronger relationships with their students.

A short animated video that simply explains the benefits of mindful practice.