5 Ways to Step Back from Teacher Burnout

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In the high-stress, fast-paced job of teaching – burnout can happen to anyone. In today’s show, we talk about recognizing teacher burnout, how to get help, and steps to tackle it when it happens. Amber Harper, an expert on the topic of burnout, discusses what we can do to help ourselves be our best for our students and families.

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Challenge: Take the burnout quiz to understand the types of teacher burnout. Discuss it with a colleague or friend to support each other when the tough times come.

Amber Harper – Bio As Submitted

Amber is a Google Certified Trainer and Innovator and her mission is to help teachers beat burnout by helping them to activate their own self-empowerment. As a former elementary teacher, she knows how challenging the education profession can be and offers support for teachers struggling with burnout through her podcast, website, and free Facebook Group.

Blog: www.burnedinteacher.com

Twitter: @burnedinteacher

Teacher Burnout Resources

– Free Teacher Burnout Quiz: www.burnedinteacher.com/burnoutquiz
– The Burned-In Teacher Training eBook: bit.ly/burnedinbook

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Vicki Davis

Vicki Davis has been an educator and IT director in Georgia since 2002. Today, she also works as an instructional technology coach, staying side-by-side with active teachers and students so her work stays grounded in real classrooms.

She's a mom of three, wife of one, and loves talking about the wise, transformational use of technology for teaching and doing good in the world.

She has blogged at the Cool Cat Teacher Blog since 2005 and hosts the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast and Cool Cat Teacher Talk (radio, public access TV, YouTube, and all major podcast platforms), interviewing remarkable educators around the world. Vicki focuses on what unites us — a quest for truly remarkable, life-changing teaching and learning. The goal of her work is to provide actionable, encouraging, relevant ideas for teachers, grounded in truth and shared with love.

If you talk to Vicki for long, she'll encourage you to "Relate to Educate," to "innovate like a turtle," or to be "a remarkable teacher." She loves homemade sourdough bread and cinnamon rolls and runs half marathons with her sisters. You can usually find her laughing with her students or digging into a book.

Thank you for reading, sharing, and telling your friends about the work we do here! - Vicki

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2 comments

Karolina August 21, 2019 - 5:30 am

Fantastic and interesting listening! Teachers need to do all they can to keep themselves healthy in and out of the classroom and make sure they make enough time for themselves outside of work!

Randy Sanders August 23, 2019 - 4:21 pm

This is such timely information. I am my 5th week of getting a Masters degree in Teaching English, and the subject of discussion this week, was, Teacher Burnout. so I am not only going to read This, I am also going to pass along This Information to the group (about 60,000 people enrolled in This online course). Thank You. Take care.