Event 

Enhancing your wellbeing as a primary teacher

Wednesday 22 January, 2025 – Wednesday 22 January, 2025
4:00 PM – 5:30 AM

Online

About this webinar

Positive Psychology Interventions (PPIs) are an influential, evidence-based approach which offers a range of techniques to foster teacher wellbeing, including:

  • Savouring / gratitude
  • Positive sharing
  • Active listening and constructive responding
  • Self-compassion
  • Spirituality
  • Goal setting and planning
  • Character strengths
  • Personal values.  

This webinar will introduce participants to some of these techniques and how they can be applied by primary teachers, with positive impact on their wellbeing in professional as well as personal situations.

We'll practise these techniques and discuss the challenges of applying PP in the current school context. We will conclude with recommendations for sustainable teacher wellbeing programmes and professional development. 

Webinar aims

  • Introduce and practise PPIs techniques aimed at improving teacher wellbeing.
  • Discuss potential challenges of PPIs in sustainably supporting teacher wellbeing.

Key takeaways

  • Five PPIs techniques to improve teacher wellbeing. 
  • Strategies for addressing the challenges of applying PPIs to explore how to enable teachers to develop sustainable wellbeing.

About the speaker

Dr Chloe Shu-Hua Yeh is a senior lecturer in Education Studies at BSU. Chloe has a scientific academic background as a secondary science and physics teacher for 4 years in Taiwan and a university academic in the UK since 2012.

Chloe’s research expertise is interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary; her recent research interests focus on educational professionals’ wellbeing cultivation and resilience building, and science education. 

About this series

BSUEd Insights is a monthly CPD series for education practitioners on a range of topics.