Teachers' wellbeing is not a peripheral issue. Indeed, it should be a moral imperative for all senior leadership teams and their governing bodies. Nonetheless, this construct has been underappreciated. How can school leaders/administrators promote teacher wellbeing in the face of growing professional challenges?
This is possible by communicating confidence and empathy in the staff, discussing all difficulties, including personal conflicts, with each other - in order to come to a solution. It often happens that a teacher looks back to another teacher or does not see himself treated well by the boss. Such conflicts must be resolved. When injustice becomes apparent, the authority of the headmaster must also be used. But usually the model of partnership-based, trust-building behavior is more successful in the long term.
Interesting question and interesting answer by Hein Retter.
I guess authors and theorists have spent a lot of time researching around it and we can all understand.
Communication is the key indeed. The other is to understand the depth of these challenges and be flexible to arrange and re-arrange duties, so that teachers can catch up with it.
After all learning to cope with change is crucial.
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