Teaching is a rewarding yet demanding profession, and without proper support, it can take a toll on educators mental, emotional, and physical well-being. This course, designed by iSTEP-Global experts, helps educators and support staff recognize the early signs of burnout, understand its root causes, and apply practical strategies to build resilience, manage stress, and maintain a healthy work-life balance.
Who is the course designed for
The course has been designed for educators, education support staff, and paraprofessionals who deliver services directly or indirectly to children, and adolescents in public, private, and international educational settings. Relevant professionals include teachers/educators, school counselors, adjustment counselors, child-care staff, college counselors, education-related health professionals, educational psychologists, juvenile detention and youth prison educators, and social workers.
Organizations include private, public and international preschools, middle schools, elementary schools, high-schools, colleges, residential settings, juvenile detention centers, youth prisons, and children’s homes.
Course duration & pace of learning
✓ 9 hours
✓ Self-paced learning
✓ Recommended over 9 weeks.
Course availability
✓ 12 months
Course certification
✓ Following course completion, click on the link to download your Certificate of Course Completion with the stated number of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) hours.
Course credits
✓ Completion of this course course provides 9 points towards the purchase materials and future courses.
Course objectives
By the end of course students will learn the following:
- A pragmatic definition of burnout in educators
- The extent of burnout in educators and why educators are so affected by burnout
- The signs of burnout in educators
- Ways to assess burnout in educators
- Organizational care & self-care strategies to prevent educator burnout
- How best to respond to educator burnout
- And the centrality of cultural safety in the prevention, recognition & response to educator burnout
Students will learn new self-care strategies & draft a school wide burnout prevention & reduction plan. Where this lesson is taken with the lessons on secondary traumatic stress and vicarious trauma, students will be able to develop an integrated prevention & reduction plan for secondary traumatic stress, burnout & vicarious trauma.
Academic book and references
Academic books and references are provided to help educators access and explore rigorous research findings.
OpenAI ChatGPT
Students are advised to utilize ChatGPT to ask questions throughout lessons. To ask your questions, open the ChatGPT search page (click on the link).
NB: There is no evidence to support ChatGPT strategies in supporting individual client mental health.
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