Grace Laszlo (Bishop Challoner Catholic College) - ‘What wellbeing strategies do ECTs learn across the two years of their course, and how do these help them manage workload and mental wellbeing effectively?’.
G. Laszlo
RDL:
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Contact:
g.laszlo@bishopchalloner.bham.sch.uk
Profile:
I have nine years experience teaching English and English Literature from KS3 to A Level. Having graduated with an English Literature degree and an MA in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Manchester in 2013, I completed teacher training through the Teach First graduate training route. After holding a variety of different positions in comprehensive secondary schools in Birmingham, I am currently Deputy Head of the English Department at Bishop Challoner Catholic College as well as being part of the Lead Teacher team, which aims to improve teaching and learning across the school by offering research-driven CPD to staff. My research project is in ECT well-being and mental health. From my experience working with ECTs, I am aware that Early Career Teachers suffer from challenges with wellbeing and mental health particularly acutely and this can lead to staff leaving the profession within their first five years. Across the first year, I aim to collect data about how ECTs manage wellbeing and workload in order visualise and design a model of wellbeing which articulates ways schools might better support ECTs and the ways ECTs might better look after their mental health.
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