I'm attempting to get back into the workforce after being a SAHM for 9 years. Even though I was in the classroom for 20 years prior to being at home, it is stressful to try to jump back in, especially after many of my family and life priorities have changed.
Everything is stressful and impractical to meaningfully eliminate most of it even with the best of strategies.
This module has shown me all the different types of stressors that can arise from your personal life and work life. The best way to cope is to write a stress list and set proper boundaries while communicating your needs to those around you.
Stress comes from so many different angles and finding balance can be hard but manageable.
It's easy to get overwhelmed with life in general. Do good at work and school, be a good parent and partner, work out, drink plenty of water, eat healthy....... and the list goes on. Self care is key and knowing you don't have to be perfect.
Learning to balance between work and family will help reduce stress if we do not then it will have negative effect on our productivity and health causing headache, upset stomach, back pain as well as high blood pressure.
Be sure to take care of yourself as a priority.
Being transparent telling about stress you are feeling in work or in personal time. This permits that you manage your stress moments.
If you can manage a work life balance you will have success.
Stress varies. Some stressor are healthy, some are less healthy. You have to learn to manage your stress levels. There are many ways to help you manage your stress.
I plan to start using more TO DO lists and prioritizing those lists based on due dates and importance.
Being transparent with your professional and personal stress can help balance and improve both areas
Juggling work and school stresses me out.
There are many different things that can cause stress which can impact your work productivity. It's important to be transparent about your stress
I have learned to manage stress throughout the years. Aging does put clarity in difficult times. LOL
There are many stressors in working with adult learners. My biggest stress would be figuring out how to hold their attention while lecturing. I try to do a lot of hands on activities and a flipped classroom.
Identifying the cause of stress is the most crucial part. So often, our efforts to control stress are misdirected, and the actual cause is avoided altogether. Understanding the toll that untreated or resolved stress can have on your professional and personal life is essential to maintaining health, productivity, and attitude. Helping my students work through emotions in the classroom can also be challenging. If I see a student struggling, I casually pull the student aside for a one-on-one check-in. This usually provides the student with enough attention to express what is troubling them and then move on.
This has allowed me to reflect on stressors in my life currently and determine ways that it has negatively/positively impacted my work/life balance.
Be open about your stessors and limitations.
I love the idea of a "stress list". My biggest workplace-related stressor is workplace related conflict.
Stress originates from a variety of sources – depending on the individual. I think maturity has a lot to do with how people cope with stress. At the same time, a person can be stressed and not know it but people around them see behavioral traits that are ignored and or are not acted upon. If someone is stressed out or “pinging” due to something as simple as an overhead projector template not fitting properly, chances are there is something else going on in that person’s life. Then there is the issue of an instructor stressing out over course content or the institution’s policy on grading. This is certainly a justifiable reason stress given the instructor’s passion for their student’s and their perceived value of their instruction. However, it’s important to recognize what can be controlled. In both instances cited, the transparency simply does not fit. So what! Improvise and move on. Some people cannot adapt to such a simplistic solution for such a simple problem. Curriculum and grading are institutional issues of which an instructor has only so much control over the result. Again, make adjustments – then move on.
