Health and Wellbeing
Manage your Mental Health as a New Teacher
Start your teaching career with habits that protect your mental health, so the hardest weeks of the year don't flatten you.
- 22 minutes
- 12 modules
- 0.5 CPD hours
- Certificate
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What you'll learn
- Put sleep, food and exercise first when time is tight
- Plan ahead in calm weeks for the crunch points of the year
- Set daily dos and don'ts for term time and the holidays
- Spot change as the key warning sign in yourself and others
- Listen to a struggling colleague or pupil without needing to fix it
About this course
New teachers put their pupils first all day, then wonder why they're running on empty by half term. Looking after yourself is part of the job. Pupils learn more from watching you do it than from any PSHE lesson.
The advice is practical. Sleep, food and exercise come first, and sleep is the one to fix if you can only fix one. Plan in the calm weeks for the crunch points, like that dark third week of November. Stop comparing your bloopers with your colleagues' highlight reels. And keep up the parts of your life that aren't teaching, so one bad lesson doesn't knock everything over.
You'll also learn the warning sign that matters most, which is change, and what to do when you spot it in yourself, a colleague or a pupil.
- For early career teachers. All phases.
12 modules
Open in order
- 2 min
Introduction
- 2 min
You matter too!
- 3 min
Physical wellbeing underpins mental wellbeing
- 3 min
Use times of calm to prepare for times of chaos
- 2 min
Decide on daily dos and don’ts
- 3 min
Don’t compare your bloopers to others’ highlights
- 3 min
Develop multiple pillars of self-esteem
- 2 min
Change is the most important warning sign
- 2 min
If in doubt, reach out
- 2 min
Listen to understand
- 2 min
You don’t have to fix everyone
- 2 min
Wrap up