Course curriculum

    1. Course introduction and a message from your instructors

    2. How to use this course

    3. Before we begin...

    4. Short wellbeing survey

    5. Personal wellbeing reflection

    6. Wellbeing wheel download

    1. Why do you teach?

    2. Ikigai

    3. Moral compass

    4. Who inspired you to teach?

    5. Every interaction counts

    6. Whose hero?

    7. Purpose - summary

    8. Further reading and resources

    1. Perspective and attention

    2. Rewiring the negativity bias

    3. Positive emotions

    4. Seeing the bigger picture

    5. Perspective summary

    6. Further reading and resources

    1. Workload introduction

    2. A hungry job and the need for boundaries

    3. Prioritising work - Eisenhower Matrix & Pareto Principle

    4. Getting started - Eat The Frog, Buffering Time and Focus

    5. Global City Leaders Research

    6. Attention management & leaving work checklist

    7. Workload summary

    8. Further reading and resources

    1. What is stress?

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Stress indicators and our responses

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Establishing new habits - EAST

      FREE PREVIEW

    4. Importance of sleep, diet and exercise

      FREE PREVIEW

    5. Being more 'otherish'

      FREE PREVIEW

    6. Balance and self-care summary

      FREE PREVIEW

    7. Further reading and resources

      FREE PREVIEW

    1. Why relationships matter

    2. Who matters to you?

    3. Having difficult conversations

    4. Gratitude

    5. Laughter and relationships

    6. Relationships summary

    7. Further reading and resources

About this course

  • £9.99
  • 54 lessons
  • 3.5 hours of video content

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Instructor(s)

Emma Kell

Dr Emma Kell has over 20 years’ experience as a teacher and leader in UK secondary schools and is a qualified Performance Coach. Emma is a practising teacher in a PRU in Bucks and works on the development of new and experienced teachers. She speaks regularly on teacher wellbeing, recruitment and retention as is a TEDx Norwich speaker. She writes for a variety of publications including TES and BBC Teach. Emma has completed a doctorate on teacher well-being and parenting at Middlesex University. Emma is author of How To Survive in Teaching (Bloomsbury, 2018) and A Little Guide For Teachers: Wellbeing and Self-Care (Sage, 2020).

Adrian Bethune

Adrian Bethune is a primary school teacher, wellbeing nerd, and founder of Teachappy. He’s an Associate Lecturer at Oxford Brookes University and Deputy Chair of the Well Schools strategic board. Adrian picked up a ‘Happy Hero’ medal at the House of Lords for boosting wellbeing in schools and later found himself speaking on stage with the Dalai Lama — as you do. He’s the author of the award winning Wellbeing in the Primary Classroom, co-author of A Little Guide to Teacher Wellbeing and Self-care, and lead author of the Oxford International Curriculum for Wellbeing. In 2024, he contributed a paper on teacher wellbeing to the OECD’s Global Forum on the Future of Education and Skills 2030. When he’s not writing, teaching or trying to make the world a happier place, he’s busy being a dad to two boys and a lively cockapoo!

Course Introduction