Showing posts with label worklife balance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label worklife balance. Show all posts
Monday, 10 December 2018

On the @TES Blog: Saying No To The Non-Essentials (or Why Tweeting and Blogging is Bad for Me)

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Perhaps the phrase "work-life balance" is a misnomer. Or at least it was rather too simple a term to help me to get things in c...
Friday, 9 February 2018

Book Review: 'How To Survive In Teaching Without Imploding, Exploding Or Walking Away' by Dr. Emma Kell

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For a book based around the responses to a survey of around 4000 teachers which revealed that 57% wouldn't recommend teaching to a fam...
Monday, 22 January 2018

The Four Tendencies and Teacher Wellbeing

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In her book 'The Four Tendencies' author Gretchen Rubin outlines four ways in which people respond to expectations. According to...
Wednesday, 30 November 2016

TBCT Interview @ Schoolwell.co.uk

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SchoolWell , a school staff wellbeing directory, asked me a few questions about wellbeing, marking, Twitter, reading and #OptimisticEd; the...
Monday, 10 October 2016

Why I Care So Much About Wellbeing

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I have been known to write about, and comment upon, wellbeing (possible understatement). My interest in reducing workload - my o...
Monday, 26 September 2016

Teachers! Be More Batman!

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This blog post is now available at  https://www.aidansevers.com/post/teachers-be-more-batman Image courtesy of Leo Hidalgo
Friday, 10 June 2016

Reach For The Cheese Slicer

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This blog post can now be found at https://www.aidansevers.com/post/reach-for-the-cheese-slicer Photo Credit: punkmarko via Compfight c...
Tuesday, 8 March 2016

Wellbeing x Optimism

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 Thanks to February I've racked up a fair few blog posts now and in looking back over them I can see there are definite recurring themes...
Sunday, 28 February 2016

Blaze Your Trail

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The word 'autonomy' comes from the Greek 'auto' meaning "self" and 'nomos' meaning "law", so t...
Saturday, 6 February 2016

Taking Charge

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These days plugging your phone in to charge must rank up there with brushing teeth when it comes to bedtime routine. You wouldn't want...
Monday, 1 February 2016

#teacher5aday: Removing the Scaffolding

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The view from my classroom window for the past year has been characterised by hi-viz jackets, heavy plant and, more latterly, clean stone...
Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Why I Never Use The Word 'Busy'

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It all started when, every week, an unemployed friend would ask me how my week had been, to which I invariably replied 'Busy!' . ...
Tuesday, 12 January 2016

Working For The Weekend

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Some might say I labour under the illusion that, as a teacher, one doesn't have to work at the weekends. Except it's not an illus...
Tuesday, 29 December 2015

What Does Pixar's 'Inside Out' Teach Us About Teacher Wellbeing? Part 2

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Riley: I... I know you don't want me to, but... I miss home. I miss Minnesota. You need me to be happy, but I want my old friends, an...
Saturday, 26 December 2015

What Does Pixar's 'Inside Out' Teach Us About Teacher Wellbeing?

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Joy. Sadness. Fear. Disgust. Anger. The five emotions that Pete Docter and Dacher Keltner decided govern each of us. Maybe that's...
Saturday, 19 December 2015

Family First?

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"When's Daddy coming to my Christmas play?" asked my five year old daughter on more than one occasion. "He has to go t...