A webinar introducing the EASiER Toolkit – Ecological Approaches to Supporting Educator Resilience: Moving beyond the individual teacher.
Come along to find out how you might use the EASiER toolkit to support student teachers to thrive on placement and in their future careers. This is a freely available suite of resources which can be used in different ways by teachers, student teachers, senior leaders and teacher educators to support teacher resilience.
It can be used as:
· A series of mini courses for student teachers to work through at their own pace;
· A suite of resources for teachers to dip into to explore particular factors (and related strategies) related to resilience (e.g. workload management)
· A framework for exploring ways to explore teacher resilience in staff meetings (including downloadable INSET PowerPoints and other whole-school resources)
· Content for teacher education programmes (including downloadable PowerPoints)
In this webinar we will focus on how the toolkit might be used within teacher education programmes.
It is shaped around our findings from a three-year ESRC-funded project investigating which factors are most important for supporting teachers to thrive. A mixed methods approach was adopted, beginning with a quantitative survey (n=2943) investigating the relative importance of a range of factors as predictors of teacher resilience, followed by the co-creation of resilience interventions in eight case study schools. We will explore key findings, as well as their translation into the EASIER toolkit.
Project team:
Dr Steph Ainsworth is a Reader and Co-Chair of the Education Policy and Practice Research Group at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has several years’ experience as a primary school teacher and has a passionate interest in teacher wellbeing.
Dr. Jeremy Oldfield is the Deputy Head of the School of Psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University. He researches resilience and wellbeing from a social-ecological perspective. He has worked with at-risk populations in Guatemala and within UK schools.
Dr. Claire Agius is a Research Associate at Manchester Metropolitan University. She researches emotional labour and wellbeing within complex systems, drawing on trauma-informed practice, co-produced research, and social-ecological approaches.
For more information, please contact: Steph Ainsworth, s.ainsworth@mmu.ac.uk