Teacher Toolbox
Mental and emotional wellbeing advice and resources; for you, your children and your classroom.Teacher Toolbox: How Year 9 girls developed my self worth
Today I delivered mental health and emotional wellbeing practice to groups of Year 9 girls. I allowed them space to experience feelings in the body and to watch their thoughts. After two morning sessions, at the start of lunch break, I...
Teacher Toolbox: Helping self-critical and frustrated learners to learn with more ease.
How do we help children to learn when they're frustrated? 1. Recognising you’re feeling frustrated is the first step. 2. Knowing what to do with the feeling of frustration is the second step. 3. Noticing the thoughts and words that you produce when you’re frustrated...
Teacher Toolbox: Are you having fun at school? LOOK UP, ZOOM OUT, PULL BACK
With so much going on this term it’s easy to lose yourself in the thick of things. Getting through each day, hour-by-hour, always so busy DOING. Checking off your lists, organising, finding, remembering, sorting, teaching, reflecting, tidying, making...but what about...
Teacher Toolbox: Choosing to be kind to yourself
It's sometimes simple things that make us go from calm to annoyed very quickly. When we're tired or hungry, we have even less patience. What do you get angry with yourself about? How do you 'beat yourself up' with your thoughts and words? There is another way, and a...
Teacher Toolbox: The Power of STOP!
This time of year, it’s so easy to keep going, going, going. Keep going right up until the last day of term, then you'll stop. Then you'll pause. Then you'll relax. Then…you'll probably get ill! I can’t remember the number of Christmas school holidays that I was...
Teacher Toolbox: Using a glitter jar in your classroom for mindfulness and emotional well-being
What's a glitter jar and how do I use it in my classroom for emotional well-being? This video has been taken from my soon be launched Learnful Teacher's Membership. An explanation of what a glitter jar is and how it can be used to help...
Teacher Toolbox: Take a mindful moment to yourself – even in a chaotic classroom!
Teachers, have a mindful moment to yourself even in your busy classroom. "Yeah right!" I hear you say, rolling your eyes. Bear with me please. It IS absolutely possible and I'd go so far as to say it's necessary and crucial that you do...
Teacher Toolbox: Thought Trains
Do you teach the children in your class to become thought watchers? Do you know how to watch your own thoughts? Every minute of every day, we are all thinking. Most of it unproductive thinking too - even though we don’t think...
Teacher Toolbox: Mindful activities for first days back
Are you thinking of activities to do in your class in the first couple of days before your first proper school week? Watch the video for three mindful awareness activities to try with your new class. Mindful class activities for first days back Giving children time...