What is stress? causes and effect of stress among teachers and how to manage stress.

1. Stress
management for
teachers
Dr. Madhu Singh
Associate Professor
St. Xavier’s College of Education,
Patna

2. A teaching job is a delicate job that
requires specific and balanced
behaviour in the classroom.
Teachers need psychological,
physical and spiritual balance.
 Our society expects teachers to be
well rounded educationally and
emotionally.

3. Stress is
• a normal part of life,
something that everybody
experiences.
• a normal reaction to changes
and challenges.
• can be healthy, but too much
can be overwhelming.

4. What causes stress?
• Changes in your life
• even positive ones
• especially if you think
you can’t cope.

5. What Happens in the Brain ?
• In response to stress, adrenal
gland in our body releases a
hormone called cortisol.
• Cortisol helps people deal with
short bursts of stress.

6. What Happens in the Brain when
a person is under constant stress
???
• The problem begins because the cortisol
can damage cells in the hippocampus,
causing problems with learning and
memory.
• Cortisol also gets in the way of the
brain’s neurotransmitters making it
difficult to access existing memories, or
to lay down new ones.
• This has obvious effect for the classroom.

7. Hippocampus
• The hippocampus is the part of the brain that is
involved in memory forming, organizing, and
storing.
• It is a limbic system structure that is particularly
important in forming new memories and
connecting emotions and senses, such as smell
and sound, to memories.
• The hippocampus is a horseshoe shaped paired
structure, with one hippocampus located in the
left brain hemisphere and the other in the right
hemisphere.

9. Hippocampus

10. Prolong release of
cortisol can cause
• Asthma
• Peptic ulcer
• Diabetes
• High blood pressure
• cancer

11. PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
OF STRESS
• The quickened
heartbeat
• increased respiration
• dilated pupils
• your mind not working
as quickly as usual

12. PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
OF STRESS

13. Feeling low
nervousness and
anxiety
 excessive anger
/depression
 being easily upset
poor self confidence
low self esteem
lack of concentration
Mental Stress

14. BEHAVIORALAL
SYMPTOMS
Yawning
talking too fast
talking too loud
nail biting
grinding teeth
drumming fingers
over reacting
emotional

15. BEHAVIORALAL
SYMPTOMS
These symptoms will have a negative effect on
performance:
 by reducing one’s effectiveness
making accident prone
causing to be forgetful
causing to be negative
a person may neglect her/his appearance
 may make poor judgements
 causing to make more mistakes
 increase of absenteeism

16. PERFORMANCE
STRESS SYMPTOMS
• You may not take good decision.
• Fine motor skills can be affected.
• Attention span may be affected.
• Negative thoughts come.
• Self confidence becomes low.

17. BEHAVIORALAL
SYMPTOMS
Yawning
talking too fast
talking too loud
nail biting
grinding teeth
drumming fingers
over reacting
emotional

18. The Impact of Stress
on Learning
Stress causes changes in the body-brain
system and actually inhibits learning.
Stress damages virtually every kind of
cognition that exists. It damages
memory and executive function.
This has tremendous implications for
teachers.

19. Manage stress
• For all of these reasons all of us
need to learn how to recognize
stress and stressors.
• That’s why it’s good to know
some stress management
techniques.

20. Stress
management
techniques

21. Understanding causes of stress
Understandsources ofstress
Makebest use of resourcesavailableto
you
Plan tomanagestress

22. Teachers’ stressors
 Taking work
home
 difficult students
 difficult classes
 lack of
administrative
support
 pressure from
parents
 teachers’
evaluation
 social isolation
 job uncertainty
 integration of
intelligence and
technology
 students’ and
parents’
bullying……..

23. Common stressors for
teachers in classrooms
• Something done in private
which is unrelated to the lesson
• such as reading, drawing, and
doing other homework.

24. Common stressors for
teachers in classrooms
• it is a rising phenomenon that students
like to use electronic devices
• such as mobile phone for texting people
inside or outside classroom,
• playing electronic games,
• surfing webpage, or
• listening to music.

25. Calm is strength and upset
is weakness
Classroom management requires calm.
upset happens quickly, however, you
have to learn to relax immediately and
automatically when confronted.
A calm response to provocation can be
learned, but it takes practice.

26. Manage your stress
And wake up every morning
refreshed, excited, and ready
to teach.
But how ???

27. Learn on your classroom
management plan
These are all ineffective and terribly stressful :
• Lecturing,
• scolding,
• arguing,
• threatening,
• manipulating, and
• discussing misbehaviour .

28. Learn on your classroom
management plan
Instead, when a student
misbehaves
simply and dispassionately
enforce a consequence,
and then move on to more
important things.

29. Be an early bird
• arrive to school early and get
down to business.
• Don’t ease into your day.
Jump in with both feet.

30. Free your mind.
•Being organized
•Just knowing where every file,
set of data, and lesson idea is.
• and how to reach them quickly
will give you peace of mind and
one less thing to concern
yourself with.

31. Leave school at school.
• If you’re in the habit of bringing the
disappointments and dilemmas of your
day home with you, then you’re on the fast
track to burnout.
• You won’t sleep well, you’ll be less than
your best for your family, and you’ll be no
fun to hang out with.

32. Dancing is a good stress
buster

33. Exercise
• need to reboot the system and enjoy
better energy for teaching.
• Go for a brisk walk.
• Dance to your heart’s content.
• Join a swim club.
• Whatever you do, make sure it’s
something you enjoy.

34. Meditation / Devotional
Prayer
• Meditation has proven as stress relievers
that help people deal with worry, anxiety
and finding peace of mind.
• Both be practiced conveniently anytime of
day, in your own home and with no
therapist, practitioner or program needed.

35. Eat for energy
What you eat
can have a
startling effect
on how you feel,
how you look,
and how much
energy you have
for teaching.

36. •Take rest
• a good night’s sleep is a
must.
•Healthy living.
•Focus on routine.

37. Become a classroom
management expert.
If you have expert skills, and the
right mindset, you’ll never be
stressed.
When you have the ability to create
your dream class, your students will
energize you, inspire you, and make
you feel like you’re exactly where
you should be, doing exactly what
you were meant to do.

38. So
• You have the power to avoid the
stress and fatigue that make you
unhappy and ineffective.
• You have the power to create the
well-behaved classroom you’ve
always dreamed of.
• You have the power to grab hold of
the rewarding, energizing career you
really want—never to let it go.

39. Manage your stress
and wake up every morning
refreshed, excited, and
ready to work.

40. Thankfully, wonderfully,
it’s all in your hands.

42. THANK YOU
so much