Bouncing back! Resilience and survival s an educator.
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Slides used for my Keynote at the 30 Goals E-conference in July 2015. For the recording visit my profile page on the 30Goals website http://www.30goals.com/johart.html
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Bouncing back! Resilience and survival s an educator.
- 1. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Title: The 30 Goals E-Conference July 17-20th, 30Goals.com/conference 30 Goals Keynote: Goal: Be a Mentor or Find a Mentor (2011) Prepare for the Battle (2012) Avoid Burnout (2014) Get a Certificate of Attendance: 30Goals.com/AttendanceForm @30GoalsEdu #30GoalsEdu Bouncing back! Resilience and survival as an educator. Jo Hart
- 2. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Bouncing back! Resilience and survival as an educator. Jo Hart Western Australia
- 3. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” The roots of this session.
- 4. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” The struggle to survive! Bounce back from this.
- 5. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” After a bushfire Five years later Resilience is …
- 6. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Challenges we all face as educators: • respect • disregard of our professionalism • judged on others performance • jealousy – assumption that teaching is an easy life • providing learning opportunities is hard work • time • excessive focus on testing • increasing paperwork • everyone knows more about teaching than teachers
- 7. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” http://linoit.com/users/JoHart/canvases/Challenges! Visit: … and add your own educator challenges YOUR challenges as an educator.
- 8. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” • shyness • workplace bullying • near burnout • several months “off the radar” last year • changes in the public vocational education system here • living in a bushfire prone area • a current threat of mining to my home communty. Some strong personal challenges:
- 9. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” There’s always someone awake somewhere!
- 10. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival”
- 11. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” What helps my PLN be more resilient?
- 12. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” What helps me personally to be more resilient? • PLN • connectedness • sharing • close colleagues • my “other half” • learning and experimenting • giving back • knowing my strengths • standing by my principles • the place where we live • growing food
- 13. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” What helps YOU to be more resilient? http://linoit.com/users/JoHart/canvases/Being%20resilient Visit: … and add your own tips for resilience
- 14. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” How can we be more resilient and help colleagues be more resilient? Resilience is fostered by many things including: • Connections • Support networks • Balance • Self-esteem • Self-knowledge • Being innovative • Learning – always learning
- 15. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” What could YOU do to: • become more resilient yourself? • support colleagues to be more resilient?
- 16. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Reflect on what works for you, think how can you inspire yourself and others to become more resilient Make a plan!
- 17. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Share your plan with your PLN!
- 18. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Carry out your plan! Share the outcomes with your PLN!
- 19. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” How Teachers Can Build Emotional Resilience By Elena Aguilar Keep That Bounce: 5 Ways to Nurture Your Resilience as a Teacher By Samantha Cleaver Turning Resistant Teachers into Resilient Teachers By Jessica Bohn http://johart1.edublogs.org/2010/10/08/a-culture-of-blame/ A culture of blame? By Jo Hart Bad Teachers, Scapegoats, and Halting Education Transformation By Shelly Sanchez Terrell https://coopcatalyst.wordpress.com/2010/10/05/bad-teachers-scapegoats-and-halting-education-transformation/ http://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2011/01/05/tln_resilience.html http://www.weareteachers.com/blogs/post/2015/04/02/ways-to-nurture-your-resilience-as-a-teacher http://www.ascd.org/ascd-express/vol9/910-bohn.aspx
- 20. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Jo Hart Western Australia Twitter: @JoHart Blog: E-verything Facebook: Jo Hart Email: johartoz@gmail.com Thank you ALL for being part of this session Thank you Shelly, Sarah and Jake for the stupendous task of organising the conference Next up!
- 21. The 30 Goals Challenge Conference July 16th to July 20th Keynote – Jo Hart “Bouncing Back – resilience = survival” Question time?
Editor's Notes
- One of the difficult things for me about planning this session was that I tried to match it to a “30 goals” goal. It wasn’t hard because it didn’t relate to any of them but because it seemed to me to relate to many of them. I ended up with these three goals that seem to me to relate strongly to being resilient.
- Shelly did me the honour of asking me to be one of the Keynotes for the 30Goals E-conference when she was staying with us in Western Australia for a few days in June this year. It was an exciting few days! Shelly has been a PLN friend via Twitter, webinars and more recently Facebook since early 2009 and this was our first meeting for real. We never stopped talking for those few days and one of the things we talked about was resilience!
- The roots of this session go back to 2010 when I read a blog post from Shelly about the stressors and pressures on teachers. I felt I had too much to say on this issue to put it all in a comment and so I wrote a post of my own. Since then I have seen (via my PLN and my work colleagues) the increasing pressures and stressors on educators across all sectors not just those in schools but in universities and in my own area of public vocational education!
- All the time I see Educators struggling to survive! Some of us do and some of us don’t. We stop teaching – change careers opt out completely OR we just hang in there! Why, and why, and what can we do to help us survive.
- The answer lies in resilience! Resilience is the ability to adapt to stress and adversity – just as our Australian bush bounces back after bushfires so we need to survive and move on in the face of challenges. We can survive, we can be more resilient and we can support our colleagues in the educator community to be more resilient. Then we can all support our students better and be better role models for them.
- The system is (as Shelly said in the opening address) “full of things that don’t appreciate teachers” these contribute to many of the challenges we face: - a fairly universal lack of respect for educators – when I was growing up if I was ever in trouble at school I was in trouble at home as well! - lack of trust - not being treated as professional people with ethical standards - being judged on the performance of others over whom we have no sanctions for non-performance - jealousy – the assumption that those who teach have it easy because the length of the teaching day and teaching year are comparatively short - that providing learning opportunities at whatever level with children or adults is hard work - there is never enough time allowed by the “system” for preparation - the excessive focus on testing – teaching to the test, one size fits all and all the other ramifications - increasing, and difficult to comply with, policies, paperwork, documentation, administration - that everyone who has been a learner thinks they are more qualified to pontificate on education than are educators!
- As some of you probably know I am totally passionate about always having audience interaction in my sessions. And I always have to push the boundaries! – so I hope this works. I’m going to share the link to this Linoit through ChatWings and ask you to visit the page and add your own sticky listing one or more of your educator challenges. I’ll open the page and share so that we should all be able to see the additions. http://linoit.com/users/JoHart/canvases/Challenges!
- In addition we all have our own personal challenges both as educators and as people and I think that the impacts of challenges are cumulative so our personal challenges may be the “straw that breaks the camel’s back” for how well we are able to “bounce back” as educators. For me these have included: - a debilitating level of shyness - workplace bullying - near burnout from several years of working with disengaged and sometimes threatening students - being completely “off the radar” for several months last year as a result of illness - changes in the public vocational education system here over recent years – reduced funding and need to be “competitive” that puts pressure on educators to market courses and teach more and more students in less and less time and with more and more paperwork - living in a bushfire prone area - a current threat of open cut mining within the small rural communty where I live.
- A few years ago when I was doing almost permanent battle at work on a whole host of fronts, a colleague said to me that he thought I was very resilient. I was surprised and quite flattered – I had never thought of myself that way at all. If I thought about it at all I just thought I was stubborn! Since then I have thought about and reflected on resilience quite a lot. I find it interesting that during that period when I felt very beleaguered as an educator at work I found refuge in my PLN, in the global connections I was making and in presenting online. During the many nights when I couldn’t sleep because of the stressors at work there was always someone from my PLN online via Twitter somewhere in the world that I could talk to.
- We are all different – some of us have more in-built resilience than others but I am totally sure that we can increase our own resilience and support others to increase theirs. Different factors work for different people. Last week I asked my PLN what helps them be resilient – and had quite a few replies. Don’t feel you have to read all of these. I pulled out relevant words and made a word cloud with Tagxedo
- Unsurprisingly a some words, or their derivatives, appeared several times in responses from my PLN and those words also sit well with me! As do many of the others.
- What helps me personally: - PLN – there is always someone to talk to - this fosters that sense of connectedness - and gives opportunities to share the good and the bad (trouble shared is trouble halved) - having a few close colleagues at work that I can share my stressors with - learning, exploring and experimenting, being an innovator, stepping out of my comfort zone always - giving back - supporting my colleagues and PLN - knowing my strengths and also what I am not good at - standing by my principles and saying “no” when I need to - Phil my “other half” of over 40 years – we are both educators and tech-heads, that helps immensely because we talk the same language - the place where we live – 25 acres of peaceful semi-bush with much wildlife and beautiful sunsets and skies - growing our own food cooking and eating it Those last two are essential for me – because they provide balance and “me time”
- What helps you to be resilient – to keep bouncing back? Another Linoit I’m going to share the link to this Linoit through ChatWings for you to visit and add your own sticky. I’ll open the page and share so that we should all be able to see the additions. http://linoit.com/users/JoHart/canvases/Being%20resilient
- How can we be more resilient and help our colleagues be more resilient Resilience is fostered by many things including: Connections and community Support networks – eg PLN, mentors Balance – eg work/life balance Self-esteem Self-knowledge Doing something new (being innovative) Learning – always learning We are all different so the things that help us develop resilience are not the same for everyone
- What are you going to do to further develop your resilience? And to help others develop theirs The 30goals challenge has many challenges that help develop resilience Something you can do right now is connect with others that are attending this session. Add your Twitter name, blog link or other preferred social media link to the ChatWings chat right now!
- When you leave this session reflect on what works for you in being resilient – if you are a blogger then blog about it. Although I haven’t blogged very much recently I will post (in the next day or two) about this session! Think about how to inspire yourself and others to develop greater resilience Make a plan for fostering resilience
- Share your plan with your PLN – use whatever platform works for you (and them). Twitter is still my favourite platform but I use Facebook a lot these days too because there are people I want to connect with who don’t do Twitter. I do have Google+ as well but don’t use it often
- Do it! Carry out your plan and share the outcomes. Be resilient – help your colleagues to be resilient That way we can all better support our students and help them be resilient in the face of their own challenges
- A few posts that you might find interesting.
- Thank you so much to all of you for being part of this session And of course thanks are very much due to the organising team Shelly, Sarah and Jake
- Any questions? Please put into ChatWings and I will do my best to reply!