How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers? | Sydney Jensen

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Teachers emotionally support our kids -- but who's supporting our teachers? In this eye-opening talk, educator Sydney Jensen explores how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" -- the idea that they absorb the emotional weight of their students' experiences -- and shows how schools can get creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.
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[@hrm087]

This comment section is getting so toxic. We realize the students need support as well, and the speaker also makes that case. That’s why we’re there, because we want to support our kids and lift them up. Why can’t we help both students and teachers and not sacrifice one for the other? The fact that people are so defensive and feel that teachers like myself don’t need extra support than what we’re getting is why this problem exists. You don’t have to advocate for us, but there’s no reason to advocate against us.

[@Radioactive_Nerd]

That's my teacher, so thanks for backing her up

[@madam.president.mbuli1]

I'm in a school in South Africa and it's crazy how teachers are being treated, not only by their superiors but the students too. These days, breaking teachers down mentally seems to be the main goal of the students. It's insane.

[@greeneyedcat2748]

Did anyone have a favorite teacher ?, yes we all did, I guarantee you that teacher had the support of the system, his/her peers, and family, causing that teacher to pragmatically be better than some others. When we invest into the mental health of our teachers we predominately invest into our children. Just a thought.

[@shaunpatryck]

Wrong... These teachers need to leave everything home and do w.e it takes no matter the hardships to make sure these kids are taken care of, educated and fed. Their emotions mean nothing! Unbias Teaching Methods are the only methods needed

[@greeneyedcat2748]

@@shaunpatryck Shaun I was brought up by Vietnam vets in the class room who were largely ignored in Australia in the 80's, we also had corporal punishment being hit by the grace of a cane at the teachers discretion, it could've been different if all parties involved took more care of each others mental and otherwise health, anything less in the work place is inhumane. just my thoughts.

[@shaunpatryck]

@@greeneyedcat2748 catholic schools in America did the same thing with rulers with unruly childern... they didnt step out of line too often, I'd be happy to go back to a very regimented schooling. All the power to charter and private schools!

[@terryisaac8195]

@@shaunpatryck I also spent 12+ years in Catholic schools and was educated by Dominican nuns throughout those years. You received fair treatment only if your parents were well-off, rich, or politically-connected; my adopted parents were none of those things. I made it all the way through and graduated!!!

[@shaunpatryck]

@@terryisaac8195 yes.... && not having wealthy parents was a good thing... In public you would've been treated like every other.... your catholic school you were looked down upon increasing your drive so that is a massive plus.

[@ghost21501]

Let's start with making sure that teachers can afford to live and pay for all their bills. Not all teachers have the luxury of being a rich person's husband or wife. A lot of teachers, especially men have extreme stress not being able to provide for their families on a teacher's salary. This causes a ton of stress, which translates into poor performance as a teacher. Why have we decided as a society that teachers should be paid less than a McDonald's manager?

[@aaronrosenberg6633]

And colleges are feeding this dysfunction as well by hiring about 50% adjunct faculty, paying them less and denying benefits. These teachers often have no office hours and must take multiple jobs to make ends meet. They cannot be there for their students emotionally and are stressed out themselves.

[@thornmatthew8395]

Pay them more

[@Prog4Prog]

walperstyle socialism just died ;)

[@onetwo3706]

Economics

[@shoelessb4515]

you cant pay teachers enough to put up with physical assaults and verbal abuse from 15 year old assh"*'*. Each campus needs its own swat team and judge on duty.

[@joetaylor486]

I work in the EMS services in the UK and your very empassioned talk has motivated me to try something different. Passing appraisal on other members of staff seems like a great way to go x

[@aliceclark2118]

As a student I totally agree. Thanks for raising this point. We all need support and teachers are being put under intense pressure when all many want to do is help x

[@markc6714]

You mean during the few weeks of the year they actually work ? I work 16 hrs a day in a private sector job so I have no sympathy for teachers taking a bit of work home.

[@Slingin_Mary_Alex]

Yes totally, Alice! Thanks for being so kind. It's a really tough job. Anyone who hasn't done it doesn't know. Thank you :)

[@GreenMM_11]

Beautiful words from a beautiful soul 🧡💛💚❤️

[@noorussabhakhan2527]

Sydney Jensen, you have such a remarkable purpose and vision! I was glued to the screen absorbing all that you were trying to get across, I look forward to more talks of yours! Kudos!

[@dr.rutvishah3100]

Very inspiring and eye-opening talk on how teachers are at risk of "secondary trauma" and "How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers".

[@GraceEllenMusic]

As a high school teacher in Australia, I would sometimes teach 150 students a day. Not counting the students you speak to at lunch breaks or those that use your classroom as a refuge during breaks because they're scared of the playground....it's such a difficult job :(

[@HistorySkills]

This was a brilliant talk, thank you! I have been trying to do my bit to support History teachers from around the world, but it is only a drop in the bucket compared with what is really needed.

[@larasmith2931]

🦋that’s why it’s so important to talk to others.its amazing your light may be what helps them not commit suicide

[@aSHTEBALA]

Close your eyes, imagine sadness from inside out speaking

[@meenakshikamboj3182]

This talk made me emotional....such a heart touching talk

[@Radioactive_Nerd]

That's my teacher!!!

[@eukande]

Thanks for all this knowledge!!!

[@khushbeerdhaliwal3931]

Relevant topic, need more such discussions.

[@nittygritty7034]

We do need some hope

[@BasheeraAfrozShaikh]

Was glued to each and every word you said. As an elementary school teacher, its the behavior of seniors and colleagues which draw us down. Pressurizing teachers to follow their traditional methods instead of innovative just that students and their parents couldn't start liking or loving that teacher. Its so heart breaking.

[@thelining4078]

Lovely girl, outside and inside.

[@greeneyedcat2748]

We need more of them.

[@ridipkhanikar6200]

Very inspiring presentation on a very interesting topic

[@dr.vrushaliwagh1682]

Excellent, wonderful and insightful talk on "How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers".

[@rajneeshgupta5200]

Well described presentation to understand need of addressing trauma of students

[@teachersilviamontufo]

Amazing ❤️

[@justinsebastian7126]

schools should be creative in supporting everyone's mental health and wellness.

[@santidas1]

excellent talk on supporting well-being of teachers

[@drbassasatyannarayana2507]

Very wonderful lecture Thanks and regards Dr BASSA SATYANNARAYANA

[@jigneshraval9673]

Very Important Angle of Teacher's Life Is Shared.

[@harshavala7850]

Thank you for the session

[@Sanjaysubbaedu]

very worthwhile session.Thank you very much.

[@WeallMaharashtra]

Important talk on support the emotional well-being of teachers.

[@angshumanchakraborty8238]

Very touchy lecture on emotional well-being of teachers.

[@juthikabiswakarma]

Excellent presentation.

[@hasinasikdar8783]

Important discussion..thank you

[@bishnukumarbarudi7196]

Thank you very much

[@shrabanibasu3842]

Supporting the well-being of teachers does not necessarily exclude the well-being of the students. It's a good talk.

[@dipankardas46]

very important talk on supporting the emotional well-being of teachers

[@amitapatel2822]

Thank you.

[@jorgesalles8692]

Excelente, precisamos de professor assim no Brasil

[@dr.sandeeproysarkar5287]

Thank you for your lecture.

[@pro.rajshreedilip5263]

glad hearing this speech for being a tearcher.

[@espasmemuscular]

Personal responsability

[@madhushreemukherjee1255]

Nice discussion.Thank you.

[@anishdoecusat]

Informative session on 'How can we support the emotional well-being of teachers' Dr. Anish Kumar M S

[@V.PRIYAVADHANA]

Clear presentation

[@almartinicino5796]

Compelling. Thanks for this.

[@dr.srigourikosuri6208]

Awesome talk about the emotional well being of teachers.

[@vijaynagpure5716]

Thank you , very nice

[@AVIJITDAS-ty4ki]

Thank you maam very good discussion.

[@dattaganesh74]

Superb session, sir.

[@pratibhavora790]

Thank you

[@harpalkaur4340]

I wish may all teachers becomes like u

[@dr.surajsk7110]

So nice session.

[@nanagholap5639]

Good information thanks

[@balrajmachnoor1351]

Very inspiring session

[@aliakbor7572]

Yes,everyone we are connected.The Example of my father connected to me and i connected my mother also my father connected to my mother.Thus way teacher also connected the student we should always remember that we have need to help by another person so becareful in your behavior.beacuse if you do anyone bad behavior then you also don't Expect to get the good behavior.This video also understood that we are all of connected and linking of many ways to everyone.

[@dr.ankitkumarjpatel1971]

Good session for teacher students emotional relationship

[@roobiyakm3940]

Amazing talk

[@dr.giridharihazra173]

Very nice presentation

[@wilhelmoberon4973]

So cute girl! And so important subject for our minds and souls...

[@tcaDNAp]

Oof it hits different right before Covid-19... one of my friends got sent to the ER by her preschool student and had enough abuse to quit; schools have to change a lot to keep teachers!

[@dr.shuvojitmondal2503]

Nicely described.

[@GC-fj4lc]

Create a society in which parents are able to care for their children, and create a field in which teachers are able to care for themselves. Basically, pay everybody what they're worth and have access to resources

[@shawttikiojha9820]

Informative one

[@drtaraknathchattopadhyay1776]

Clean presentation

[@rajarsheegupta591]

Emotional well-being of teachers is one of the least talked about topics in education. Thankfully the scenario has started changing slowly worldwide.

[@nikitasonara2217]

Very nice video about emotional well being

[@dr.vijaypatil848]

Very nice informative video

[@amitavarade2548]

for emotional well being of teachers support from socity aslo needed

[@bhawanamanekar46]

Very nice.

[@pfunk9632]

Teachers should be allowed special benefits while wearing a newly created stole or cord in public. To let us all know how important they really are to our futures. Tax free lives up to 10k per year to offset spending on supplies for our kids, teacher discounts on menus at restaurants, special close parking spots > like for disabled and vets - to help them with time crunch schedules. And probably a lot more things that im not qualified to chime in on. Idk. All i know is that i had 2 teachers that changed the course of my life were my parents failed and i love them to this day for it.

[@zacharygiles2984]

No they don’t deserve what vets have

[@Keshlynne]

I would say that at a minimum teachers should be allowed maternity/family leave. Most districts do not allow this, and teachers are forced to take sick days or personal days if they want to, I don't know, actually go to a hospital to have their babies and then spend a few days with their newborns. Other employment sectors offer this basic allowance, but not most school districts. Then, if a teacher has to take too many days off after having their baby because of complications, the school reserves the right to pink slip them. It's backwards, and not right.

[@zacharygiles2984]

Doubt that they can’t have maternity/paternity leave since I’ve had 2 teachers do that

[@pfunk9632]

Zachary Giles ^like NOT replacing dood. I know I wouldn’t be a vet if I wouldn’t have graduated 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@terryisaac8195]

@@zacharygiles2984 vets don't deserve what they receive either. Serving in the military was what they signed up (volunteered) for!!! Boo hoo hoo!!! They (probably) did their service obligation; now it's time to get back to civilian life!!! I was Honorably Discharged twice in Mar 67 and I received an NDSM metal and ribbon which was duly noted on my DD-214; but the fkn USAF screwed me out of receiving ANY military benefits. I have never gotten a satisfactory reason for what they did!!!! So, little donnie trump, we can never make this country great again, because IMVHO, it has NEVER been all that fkn good since day one when it was founded!!!!!🤧👽🙀

[@shrikantpandya1369]

Wonderful

[@jignakholiya7873]

Inspirational

[@rajujamadhar]

Thanks

[@babitakar6308]

Well said

[@anweshabhattacharya8808]

Talk on the very important topic of teachers' emotional well being.

[@drishyad6237]

a thought provoking talk....

[@chiragmistry4889]

nice talk.

[@nandlalahir6309]

Good informative video

[@iincisif8599]

Why don't we have a teacher for each group of personnality type , like that everybody's happy

[@mareslsl]

what about bipolar students they'll have two teachers? come on!

[@jxnathan4523]

nothinghappened then you don’t know how to communicate with other people who have other personalities ? and it limits people for the world outside of school

[@iincisif8599]

@@jxnathan4523 Nope, that's stupid ... It's like saying that u don't know walk with other personnality type ... if u know how to talk with somone , u know how to talk with somone else

[@BiggPhillips]

When i pick my daughter up at school each day the teachers talk to the parents of the children who were trouble. One thing that is obvious is that the parents of these problem children are drug addicts. I have seen some parents picking their children up wearing pajamas an obviously haven't showered. One mother is so busy on her phone each day that she continues while the teacher is explaining what her child did that day. Sic

[@dawnofthedunk]

People in power don't care. Soon a teaching job will be as easy to get as what a taxi, carer or retail job is nowadays. Basic training ticked off to meet the basic criteria. They don't want passionate people that may create problems, they want nameless hands to fill the numbers they've promised..

[@Keshlynne]

Actually, it's quite the opposite. Just in order to get a credential, many districts demand you have a Master's Degree or better. This makes people unwilling to go into the teaching sector, as not only is a teacher underpaid (my district alone only offers $22,000 salary to starting teachers) and frequently unable to pay the majority of their bills, but they are also required to have the same amount of education of the psychologist who is making four times more than them. Then there is the problem of parents flat not respecting the teachers because "my child cain't do nothing wrong," and teachers having little to no backup from administration, which causes the students to be just a disrespectful. Did I mention that administrators make double and sometimes triple what their teachers do and the teachers do four times the work of the administrators? The entire system is backwards.

[@dawnofthedunk]

@@Keshlynne give it a few years.

[@avinashkudva8592]

Nice ted talk

[@dr.taniachakraborty]

So moved by the talk, connecting really for being a teacher myself.

[@kidsnetsoft]

Thank you for such a beautiful talk. I totally agree with you. Our students need to feel loved for sure because most of the time we have no idea what they go home to and it is the right thing to do.

[@umashankarroy7305]

Nice video.

[@cozylifeforever6913]

Can you imagine, teaching 40 hours per week? It's me 😢

[@AT-vw7nz]

Communicate, collaborate and problem solve... important for teachers

[@dr.dineshpatel6253]

Thank you for the session.

[@fatenbenslama6730]

My Mother is a good teacher but she is getting mentally and physically tired because of the bad conditions of her job... Imagine she is forced to treat 40 students in one class... Imagine... How hard it is...i am talking about a primary school... This happens in 2019 in an arabic country... I think many teachers are suffering during their lives and while doing their job... It is getting worse especially for old teachers Who are more experienced and competent and Who know exactly what they should do or not... My Mother is 54 years old and do you know what the problem is ?... She is desprite and unhappy with the whole educational system... The teacher becomes the victime of school... malcomprehension... sometimes of maltreatement... and unfortunately she or he does not find her or his dignity... her or his recognition...

[@cambicelltiendavirtual]

Es muy buen video

[@jigneshkumarlimbachiya8282]

good informesan

[@mayankbhargaw8513]

धन्यवाद

[@dr.dipakchavda8038]

Nice

[@bestbuy3514]

The girls excellent opnion and looking very nice and cute...........

[@pfunk9632]

Would be interesting if all teachers decided to quit teaching and just upload vids to KZbin, TicTok, Twitch, etc. of them roasting your kids, or of your kids trying to read, or of your kids licking their desks for clicks. Waaaay better $$$ and tbh it’s what your kids are doing to them. 👌✌️

[@terryisaac8195]

What about taking and posting videos of students (of all ages and grades) behaving like rude and disrespectful @$$-hats in the classroom!!!

[@pfunk9632]

Terry Isaac just as juicy 😆

[@kokobunni5897]

Interesting point. It’s like this hidden thing. Society has no idea of what is happening. Children are strangers in their own homes, yet exact extensions of their guardians. Many would be shooked if they knew how children truly behaved in the classroom

[@deeshmamp9385]

Good

[@jaygee5344]

Be parents and train our kids not to be assholes.

[@maxischmidt1299]

This is an important cry for help