The presentation I gave during Inset days 2012 about stress management for teachers.

1. Stress Management For
Teachers
By: Mrs. Sajida Tariq
&
Mrs. Munaza Shakeel

2. Objectives
To introduce the term stress
To explain the causes of stress
Teachers and stress
Self stress assessment
To create a relaxing
environment
Remedies

3. Activity # 1
Time:
3 minutes for discussion
5 minutes for conclusion
Instructions:
Discuss among your group members the
following questions and share your views

4. What is stress?
When people feel little
stress?
When people feel greater
stress?

5. Definition
Of
Stress
Stress is a condition of feeling experienced
when a person perceives that demands
exceed the personal and social resources the
individual is able to mobilize. People feel
little stress when they have the time
experience and resources to manage a
situation. They feel greater stress when they
think that they can not handle the demands
put upon them.

6. Activity # 2
Time:
5 minutes
Instructions:
List down the things which keep a teacher
stressed at his workplace.

7. List of stresses upon a
teacher
Lesson planning Teacher’s evaluation
Accountability for student Ongoing learning
performance
Social isolation
Classroom management and
discipline Job uncertainty
Supervisory role Integration of intelligence and
Extracurricular activity conducting technology
and monitoring
change in curriculum
Taking work home
Difficult students
Difficult classes
Lack of administrative support
Pressure from parents

8. Activity # 3
Time:
5 minutes
Instructions:
Volunteer some stressful experiences or
incidents and explain how the you feel and
work under stress and pressure.

9. Behaviors in stress
conditions
Fight or Flight:
According to the study of biologists humans respond
to urgent stress situations in two ways:
Fight : To battle with the stress causing factor
Flight : To try to escape from stress causing factor

10. Power, but little control...
Unfortunately, this mobilization of the body for
survival also has negative consequences. In
this state, we are excitable, anxious, jumpy and
irritable. This reduces our ability to work
effectively with other people. With trembling and
a pounding heart, we can find it difficult to
execute precise, controlled skills. And the
intensity of our focus on survival interferes with
our ability to make fine judgments based on
drawing information from many sources. We find
ourselves more accident-prone and less able to
make good decisions.

11. Activity # 4
Time:
7 minutes
Instructions:
Make groups of five and work on 5
different scenarios of different stressors
present your role play.

12. Understanding causes of
stress in your life:
•  Understand the long-term stress in your life;
•  Understand the most serious sources of
short-term stress;
•  Make best use of all of the resources
available to you;
•  Find stress management techniques that will
be helpful; and
•  Plan to manage stress.

13. Job stress management from
mind tools:
In all of these cases, and in many others, reasonable
people can make unreasonable demands with or without
knowing it. If you add into this the concept of “stretch
goals”, the fact that people making requests may not have
correctly appreciated the situation, and the fact that people
may be playing normal commercial games, you can see
how problems arise.This tool helps you to work through
apparently unreasonable demands to understand what lies
behind them, and develop appropriate solutions to them. It
helps you to work effectively with the person making the
demand to find a satisfactory solution, rather than just
assuming that the other person is “difficult and
unreasonable”. This helps you to reduce the stress that
these situations can cause.

14. Activity # 5
Time:
3 minutes
Instructions:
Take 3 minutes to fill the given
questionnaire in order to test your stress
level.

15. Tips to reduce stress
• Learn to plan
• • Recognize and accept limits
• • Talk out your problems
• • Avoid unnecessary teachers’ competition
• • Learn to play a sport
• • Decide to be positive
• • Love yourself more than anybody else
• • Exercise
• • Change your surroundings