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Mindful Teacher, Mindful School
Improving Wellbeing in Teaching and Learning
First Edition
- Kevin Hawkins - Independent Educational Consultant and Trainer
June 2017 | 208 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Former school teacher turned mindfulness consultant Kevin Hawkins truly understands the joys of teaching and the desire to make a real difference in the lives of students, as well as the challenges and risks of burnout that most teachers experience on a daily basis.
With this guide to mindful practice, teachers new and experienced can learn how to use mindfulness in their own professional and personal lives as well as how to incorporate it in their teaching to support student well-being. Combining theory with practice and illustrated with real life stories, this guide will show readers:
- Check out our free ebook A Little Guide to Mindfulness
- Read blog post How well are we? An Education System Under Stress
With this guide to mindful practice, teachers new and experienced can learn how to use mindfulness in their own professional and personal lives as well as how to incorporate it in their teaching to support student well-being. Combining theory with practice and illustrated with real life stories, this guide will show readers:
- What mindfulness is
- The research and scientific evidence behind it
- How changing the way you approach situations can transform the way you feel
- How to manage stress, and look after yourself
- How teaching mindfully can help your students
- What mindfulness can do for the culture in your school
- Check out our free ebook A Little Guide to Mindfulness
- Read blog post How well are we? An Education System Under Stress
Chapter 1: Shifting The Focus
Chapter 2: Mindfulness: What is it? How can it help?
Chapter 3: Being Mindful: Stress Management and Self-Care
Chapter 4: Teaching Mindfully
Part 1: Bringing Mindful Awareness Into Our Classrooms
Part 2: Mindfulness and Relationship Competence in Teacher Training
Chapter 5: Teaching Mindfulness
Chapter 6: Mindfulness, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Wellbeing
Part 1: Situating Mindful Awareness Training In Schools
Part 2: Mindfulness Based SEL in the classroom
Chapter 7: Mindful Teacher, Mindful School: Changing School Cultures
Chapter 8: Beyond Our Classrooms: Aligning with the Wider World
With mindfulness becoming more prevalent in schools this book is a really useful guide to what it is and how to support yourself as a trainee or qualified teacher and your students. It has a range of exercises to use for the teachers and their students and gives practical advise and case studies throughout. It explains how mindfulness relates to social and emotional well being and learning. Teachers are more informed and will hopefully be confident to try out the mindfulness activities in class.
ECLIPS, Suffolk New College
September 5, 2017
