The Burnout Cure: Learning to Love Teaching Again

by Chase Mielke

Overview

How can you energize yourself to maintain or regain a positive outlook and love of teaching? What specific, immediate actions can you take to enhance your well-being and thrive both on and off the job?

Award-winning teacher Chase Mielke draws from his own research, lesson plans, and experiences with burnout to help you change your outlook, strengthen your determination to be a terrific teacher, and reignite your core passion for teaching.

Often lighthearted, yet thoroughly grounded in research on social-emotional learning and positive psychology, The Burnout Cure explains how shifts in awareness, attitudes, and actions can be transformational for you and for your students. The book describes specific steps related to mindfulness, empathy, gratitude, and altruism that you can use on your own and with students via classroom lessons and activities. Equipped with these tools, teachers can be their best, so they can give their best to the learners in their care.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416627258
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	03/19/2019
Pages:	230
Sales rank:	350,935
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Chase Mielke is a writer, speaker, and award-winning high school teacher. He holds a master's degree in curriculum and instruction and runs www.affectiveliving.com, a blog dedicated to helping educators better understand and teach social-emotional learning. Mielke's work has been featured on CNN and on these websites: We Are Teachers, Edutopia, HuffPost, and Cult of Pedagogy. He lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with his wife, Ashlee, and son, Maddox. Mielke may be contacted via AffectiveLiving.com/contact.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 Awareness: Becoming a Goodness Curator 13

2 Awareness: Being Mindful 34

3 Attitude: Gratitude 51

4 Attitude: Finite Framing 68

5 Attitude: Optimism 83

6 Attitude: Empathy 103

7 Attitude: Forgiveness 120

8 Action: Altruism 135

9 Action: Crafting Your Calling 149

10 Action: Ambitious Acts 170

Conclusion 188

Appendix A Gratitude Lessons 190

Appendix B Making Connections with a Common Ground Survey 197

Appendix C 75 Altruistic Acts for Educators 198

Appendix D Resources for Positive Psychology 201

References 204

Index 218

About the Author 224