MED663 Today’s Busy Teacher: Battle Burnout and Build Balance (3 cr.)

In this course teachers learn new ways to organize their classroom practices as well as how to start creating a more healthy work-life balance that benefits the teacher, their students, and the entire school community. The daily demands on teachers are growing; high-stakes testing, best practice instruction, twenty-first century learning expectations and parent communication can sometimes lead to teacher burnout. Work-life balance for educators is a conversation happening across schools, across districts and across the nation. This course provides the space and time to have this conversation in an atmosphere that provides immediate results and both personal and classroom change.

Upon completion of this course, the learner is expected to be able to do the following:

1. Examine their current life and practice in regard to the roles and requirements placed on them at school and home.
2. Share in and analyze various perspectives on the topic of teacher burnout and teacher retention.
3. Identify areas of need across educational and personal domains using several inventories and surveys. 
4. Research best practices germane to identify need areas. 
5. Apply research practices in order to create whole change in identified need areas.
6. Use reflection as a tool for growth.