Wellbeing

Workload and Wellbeing: Build Boundaries, Balance and Confidence

This professional development course provides practical strategies to deepen your understanding of teacher wellbeing, recognise factors contributing to excessive workload, and explore realistic approaches to work-life balance. Learn to prioritise tasks using effective tools and build confidence in discussing these issues with senior leadership. Transform your teaching practice, enhance pupil outcomes, and help foster a positive school culture from the ground up.
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Adam Barrett,
Fiona Roberts & Carly Watkins

2 hours

Online Course

By completing this course you will:

develop an understanding of what teacher wellbeing encompasses, including physical, emotional and mental health aspects;
recognise key contributors to excessive workload in primary settings, including marking, planning, assessment and administrative tasks;
explore realistic approaches to setting boundaries and managing work-life balance;
build confidence in discussing workload and wellbeing with senior leaders and line managers and consider how you can contribute to and influence positive cultural shifts in school;
introduce strategies to prioritise tasks using tools like Eisenhower/Urgent vs Important Matrix, the Ivy Lee Method and Kaizen.

Course Lessons

Written by: Adam Barrett 

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Adam Barrett is an experienced teacher, academic and SENDCo. He has previously specialised in behaviour management, leading and reforming approaches to behaviour management in primary schools, with the aim of creating inclusive environments for all. As well as a PGCE, Adam has an undergraduate degree in History and an MA in English Literature.

Presented by: Fiona Roberts 

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Fiona Roberts is a video content creator (VCC) for the Twinkl CPD team. She has more than 10 years' experience as a primary school teacher and private tutor. Before completing her PGDE, Fiona also achieved an MA (Hons) in Film and Television Studies. She has previously supported the development of her school’s English curriculum and is particularly passionate about this subject. Fiona has also thoroughly enjoyed acting as a mentor to trainee teachers and Early Career Teachers during her time in the classroom.

In Collaboration with: Carly Watkins 

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Carly Watkins has more than 20 years of experience as a primary school teacher, including several years as an assistant headteacher, with responsibility for whole-school curriculum development and overseeing pupil progress and attainment. She also holds a master's degree in Education Practice and an NPQ in Leading Teacher Development.
Carly has been a mentor for both student and Early Career Teachers and currently facilitates the Early Career Framework for ECTs and their mentors, delivering training at conferences and via online seminars. At Twinkl PD, Carly heads up pedagogical professional development, a role which means she can support educators to develop their personal practice and pedagogy, something she is passionate about, on a national scale.