First Aid for Teacher Burnout: How You Can Find Peace and Success - Paperback

by Jenny Grant Rankin (Author)

Offering clear strategies rooted in research and expert recommendations, the new edition of First Aid for Teacher Burnout empowers teachers to prevent and recover from burnout while finding success at work in a sustainable way.

Each chapter explores a different common cause of teacher burnout and provides takeaway strategies and realistic tips. Chapter coverage includes fighting low morale, diminishing stress, streamlining grading, reducing workload, leveraging collaboration, using technology to your advantage, managing classroom behavior, advocating for support from your administration, securing the help of parents and community, and more. New in this edition, the author expands on discussion about teacher activism, using digital resources, as well as a wealth of tips throughout for those teaching virtually.

Full of reflection exercises, confessions from real teachers, and veteran teacher tips, this accessible book provides easy-to-implement steps for alleviating burnout problems so you can enjoy peace and success in your teaching.

Author Biography

Jenny Grant Rankin, Ph.D., is a former award-winning teacher and administrator with two doctorates in the field who now helps other educators as a lecturer, Fulbright Specialist, and author.