WEBINAR | Teacher Temperament - April 16, 2024, 2 PM Central

Teacher Temperament: How Understanding Yourself and Others Elevates Job Performance & Engagement

TUESDAY, APRIL 16, 2024, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM CDT

Live Online Event, Access Link Sent After Enrollment

How might we empower educators emotionally so they are equipped to handle not only universal stressors inherent in the teaching profession, but also those specific to individual temperament in order to uncover and strengthen the innate resiliency of teachers, leading to more reliable attraction and retention of talented teachers?

In this session, we will discuss the relationship between personality type and stress management, learning about burnout as an imbalance that can be both anticipated and mitigated with self-reflection. We will explore ways in which understanding personality types that differ from our own can benefit the mentor-teacher, teacher-student, teacher-parent, teacher-teacher, and teacher-administrator dynamics in order to bolster connection and combat the isolation related to burnout.

Key Takeaways:

• Defining burnout and identifying its hallmarks in order to mitigate or prevent it
• Increasing or maintaining job engagement through understanding of personality preferences and temperament
• Learning practical tools for self-inquiry and support-system activation to apply to oneself in the relationship-rife field of education that will increase the job engagement of talented teachers, bolstering their choices to remain in this demanding and dignified profession

This event will take place at 12:00 PM Pacific Time/1:00 PM Mountain Time/2:00 PM Central Time/3:00 PM Eastern Time.

LEANNE DI BELLA

Elementary School Teacher and Consultant

Leanne’s greatest passion as an elementary school teacher of over 20 years has deepened from supporting hundreds of students in growing critical thinking skills using Gifted and Talented Education strategies to employing her training in depth psychology by empowering kids to understand, accept, and reflect on their emotions, resulting in better communication and collaboration skills as evidenced daily in the classroom. After metabolizing her own burnout, post-pandemic, she finds meaning in helping fellow teachers, novice and veteran, cultivate true self-compassion that naturally leads to deeper compassion for others. She believes that learning to engage in self-inquiry is teachable, and developing the practice is transformative on the intrapersonal, interpersonal, and institutional levels.