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- Overtime
- COVID
- Grading
- Crafts
- Family
- Mother or Father
- Bills

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- 74% of educators have said that they don't have the ability to shut off from work, which has had led to them having a negative work- life balance.
- 20% of educators work is complete outside of their work hours.

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- Health:
~ Exhaustion
~ Anxiety
~ Sickness in holidays
~ Absence from work
~ Loss of voice
~ Panic Attacks
-Wellbeing:
~ No time to exercise
~ Lack of sleep
~ Short- tempered
~ Loss of confidence
~ Poor quality of life
- Personal Life:
~ Poor relationship
~ Poor social life
~ Detachment from others
~ Lack of time with children
~ Lack of time with friends
~ Inability to feel empathy

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"I had completely lost my boundaries. I didn't know where my job ended and it started. It had become this amorphous thing."

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- One of the most difficult parts about finding balance is that life is constantly changing. The key is to then have strategies and techniques ready to use when you feel a lot of pressure surrounding your work- life balance.

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- Start by getting smaller goals to change your work pattern.
- Don't try to change everything at once.
- Keep a diary for a week or two about your daily work life and how you work. Then identify patterns and ask yourself somethings that you may be able to change.
- Focus on the positive impact of the change.

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- Set a time to finish each day during the term. This could give you time to have dinner with family, exercise or meet friends.
- Set free time to rest properly on weekends and weeknights.
- Sign up to a regular activity, such as a class or club. Connecting with yourself and your passions can help avoid burnout.
- Set aside 15 minutes to meditate daily.
- Take your entire lunch break.
- Set time to move your body. This could be vigorous exercise or something gentle like a walk, yoga or stretching.

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- Once you have set your own goals, write them down.
- People are far more likely to achieve their goals if they put them somewhere they can see them.
- They can then refer back to them later when they feel overwhelmed or tired.

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- Enjoy the fresh air, some exercise, or a nice hot bath.
- Leave behind the day at school.
- If you can physically leave your books, markings, and assessments behind at school you should.
- If you have to take them home put them in another rom where you can shut the door and keep away from where you sleep.
- Make a separate email and social media accounts for personal and work life.

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- Do not fill your holiday time with work that you haven't been able to get done during the term.
- Allow yourself time to rest properly and do not over schedule, this way you won't feel overwhelmed.
- Don't prioritize everyone else's needs. Prioritize your needs first.

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- Create time and space for reflection.
- Not only your work but also your personal life and relationships.
- Get up 30 minutes before or 30 minutes somewhere else in your day to just sit and be calm.
- Reflect on your week, and notice there were barriers to achieving your goals and how you might remove those barriers.

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- There is always more to do then there is time to do it.
- Make sure there is communication if you need more support from your school.
- Take your entire lunch break. Limit checking emails during this time.
- Minimize unnecessary meetings. Keep meeting on track with a planner and try to only get for 30 minutes if needed.
- Do not over commit yourself.

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- It is important to build up a bank of readily accessible resources that will engage the students without too much reliance on your time and materials.
- Do not fall into over planning lessons.

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- Teachers often feel like that they are going through over directed work.
- But teachers have more autonomy than they realize.
- Make your lessons more enjoyable for you to teach and for your students to learn.