Self-Care Practices for Student Teachers During a Field Experience
Tina Boogren, author of The Beginning Teacher’s Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years (2018) describes several self-care practices for beginning teachers which preservice teachers may equally benefit from. An excellent go to reference available at the ATA library.
Tina Boogren’s Top 16 Self-Care Practices
- Getting adequate sleep
- Eating a healthy diet
- Exercising regularly
- Practising mindfulness
- Focusing on relationships
- Practising gratitude
- Practising kindness
- Appreciating humour
- Developing a growth mindset
- Picturing your best possible future self
- Being inspired
- Writing yourself permission slips
- Setting aside time to reflect
- Reflecting with someone else
- Having fun!
- Acting like a kid again (with your class and your family)
Get this book from the ATA library!
Boogren, T H. 2018. The Beginning Teacher’s Field Guide: Embarking on Your First Years. Bloomington, Ind: Solution Tree Press.
