Foreword by: Kristin Neff
Publication Date: November 22, 2024
Pages: 176
Series: Early Childhood Education Series
This interactive guide is designed to help preservice early childhood educators use self-compassion to mitigate the stress of teaching. Barry argues that learning healthy stress-management strategies while enrolled in teacher education programs will equip students with the resilience needed to manage stress when they enter their own classrooms. The goal is to beat the odds of attrition with higher levels of job satisfaction and fewer instances of burnout. This book includes research findings on the benefits of practicing self-compassion for preservice early childhood teachers, some of the common stressors and challenges teachers experience, and how they have addressed each challenge with self-compassion. Readers are encouraged to respond to writing prompts that address these common challenges and then rate their self-compassion score throughout the text. This is important reading for early care and education students, teacher educators, administrators, and other stakeholders who can make changes to mitigate stressors in their programs and schools.
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David P. Barry is an assistant professor in the Department of Early and Middle Grades Education at West Chester University of Pennsylvania.
“In this book you’ll learn about the wide range of challenges, stressors, joys, and excitements that go along with becoming and being an early childhood teacher.”
—From the Foreword by Kristin Neff, associate professor of human development and culture, University of Texas at Austin
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