Supporting pre-service teachers in kickstarting a mentally healthy career

Suitable for teacher training, continuing professional development and staff well-being.

• Teaching is a highly rewarding but also highly challenging career. Ensuring that pre-service teachers avoid compassion fatigue and burnout, both through their own self-care and through accessing support resources, is the mission of HEARTcare. Dr Astrid Kendrick, of the University of Calgary in Canada, believes that the HEARTcare resources that she helped formulate can set pre-service teachers on the path to a truly rewarding teaching career.
• The activity sheet provides an insight into Astrid’s career and questions from the HEARTcare framework to prompt self-reflection.
• If you have a question for Astrid, go to the article using the Futurum link below and scroll to the bottom of the page. Astrid will reply.

This resource was first published on Futurum Careers, a free online resource and magazine aimed at encouraging 14-19-year-olds worldwide to pursue careers in science, tech, engineering, maths, medicine (STEM) and social sciences, humanities and the arts for people and the economy (SHAPE).

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