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The role of coaching in supporting teacher wellbeing

The coaching model created by Helen Lambert and Mat Heath aims to develop teachers’ personal and professional wellbeing through shared practice and a participative, collaborative approach. They explain how...
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The teacher recruitment and retention crisis continues unabated. The previous government consistently missed its secondary teacher recruitment targets for all but one of the past 10 years. And around 80,000 teachers have quit teaching for reasons other than retirement in the past two years.

It is paramount that we do everything we can to enable teachers to do their job to the best of their ability, as well as giving them the skills and reflective capabilities to want to stay in the profession.

In education, there is, of course a focus on students, outcomes, and day-to-day school life, but when do teachers get the chance to think about themselves, especially their own wellbeing?

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