2.2 Teacher resilience
A good number of studies has shown that facing various challenges for teachers in different years of their teaching is inevitable. This issue become important when teaches lack the ability of managing these difficulties which may result in burnout and attrition. To be on the positive side, equipping teachers with qualities that prevent them from frustration and make them to thrive than just survive was an ongoing concern for teacher educators and policy makers.
Resilience, as a specific strategy that individuals usually apply when they face a kind of adverse situation (Castro, et al., 2010), has been attracted a lot of attention among researchers. Resilience as a developmental attribute seems necessary for teachers to be more confident and successful in their teaching. More
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A research done by Day and Gu (2014) showed that resilience of teachers is associated with other positive factors such as professional commitment, engagement, enthusiasm and job fulfillment.
As one of the most comprehensive studies on teacher resilience, Mansfield et al. (2012) proposed four dimensions for resilience; professional related dimension, emotional dimension, social dimension and motivational dimension.
Professional dimension in teaching context includes teaching competence and skills, organization, preparation, classroom management, facilitating effective learning, being flexible and adaptable. Emotional related dimension mostly concerned with personal attributes and attitudes includes self-belief and confidence, not taking things personally, sense of humor, ability to bounce back, emotion regulation. Social dimension mostly shaped by factors such as asking others for assistance, interpersonal skills, ability to take advice from others, professional and personal support
A person's ability to adapt to and overcome hardship is called resilience. It is known to be a set of abilities that may be learned and improved through practice and experience. It is a person's power to not get defeated by what life throws at them, but to use it as a chance for growth. The ability to handle the inevitable setbacks and obstacles that come our way is improved by developing resilience, which eventually results in a stronger sense of well-being and satisfaction in life. Through those obstacles, a person transforms to be a stronger person.
In my view resilience can sometime be brought on by an emotional event and helps you with self-confidence. Additionally, I feel that resilience means that one can expect things that can happen in a process and can adjust accordingly to the situation at hand. My example of resilience was demonstrated in this TED talk video “My Escape from North Korea” by Hyeonseo Lee, she discusses her life in North Korea and how everything was transparent to her in North Korea as she was growing up until the age of seven. In response to Larry’s claim that” forgiveness is not for the other person,” he presents a poorly inconsistent argument, on several questionable norms, which his evidence is based solely on his life situations.
What does resilience really mean to you? The literal definition to resilience is the ability to cope with problems and setbacks. In the story Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, she shows us all different kind of ways that the characters in her story used the skills that Kendra Cherry was talking about, to help them out of every situation. In this story it shows how certain situations affect people in different ways and how each person goes through seven skills. The characteristic that Louie undergoes is the skill of Strong Problem-Solving.
Students and Seroquel In a piece titled "Declining Student Resilience: A Serious Problem for Colleges", Peter Gray (Ph.D.) examines the growing trend of mental instability among university students. Collegiate faculty, and, in particular, college counselors, have reported higher rates of psychiatric disorders in campus resident 's year after year. Though Gray concedes that this problem is multifaceted, he places the majority of blame two parties: academia and parenting, proposing that their tendency to fold under the slightest of pressure compounded with an ever-present overbearing streak is rotting higher education from the inside-out.
Resilience: The Fire Within “I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.” -Joshua Graham. Life is full of obstacles, some better than others and the ability to overcome a traumatic and abusive event in one’s life is defined as resilience. Resilience is the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; to reflect toughness after an unpleasant life changing events.
Certain risk factors to resilience are attitudinal factors, community factors, familial factors and stress. Attitude is governed by thoughts, feelings and behaviours. Locus of control of self, tolerance of events, sense of self esteem and self efficacy in achieving one’s goal play a decisive role in enhancing resilience (Mowbray, 2011). Dysfunctional families, abuse, violence, parental loss, substance abuse, truancy, suspension from school, poor academic performance, poor coping and deviant peers are some of the risk factors (ENCARE, 2007). There are certain protective factors for resilience, which includes role models in life, experiences like challenges that create resilience, a positive attitude in taking it up, interaction with others positively to live the challenges, ability to engage with others and ability to form committed relationships (Mowbray, 2011).
The theme of resilience emphasizes both the value of determination and the perseverance required to endure under difficult
What are specific things that can promote resilience for an individual? These things can be something that the individual has to do for themselves such as, There are different ways to promote resiliency such as the individual deciding what is important to them, the individual deciding what are they main things occurring in their life, to set goals for themselves, and to think positively and be happy (Webb, 2013, p. 145). There also things that the people surrounding the individual can do to help promote resiliency. This can be things that the parents can do like, setting disciplinary roles, and encouraging the child to express their emotions or feelings. It’s also good for the parent to display the actions that they want their child to follow (Christle, p. 6).
Hardy, Concato & Gill (2004) stated that resilient people are those who display “the capacity to remain well, recover, or even thrive in face of adversity”. Masten (2001) as mentioned that they are the ordinary person dealing with the challenges and tragedies of everyday real life. For instance, the response of many Americans to the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks and individuals’ efforts to rebuild their lives shows their resiliency. Being resilient does not mean that a person does not have or had experience difficulty or distress; the emotional pain and sadness are common but the path to resilience is likely to involve considerable emotional distress. Resilience is not a trait which people either has or do not have whereas it involves
Furthermore, these contextual patterns are underpinned by belief system, ideology and language ( Bronfenbrenner , Blum ). Hence the resilience paradigm focuses on strength based intervention and takes one away from deficit oriented practice. Building on my professional practice , incorporating the HEADSS assessment form facilitated the process of determining the risk and protective factors of my clients. As mentioned in my previous post I did not take any formal assessments during my counselling sessions in the past.
Transactional Leadership Frequently referred to as a managerial approach to leadership, the transactional leadership style is centered on improving efficiencies within an organization or team (McShane & Von Glinow, 2015). Leaders practicing the transactional approach focus on the details of the step by step processes and workflows using a reward and punishment system to encourage workgroup production (Dartey-Baah, 2015). As errors and inconsistent results are part of the expected norm, transactional leaders succumb to the belief that employees require ongoing monitoring and supervision to ensure compliance with the expected work practices. When used with an experienced high performing staff, the constant supervision and punitive nature of the transactional leadership style can be counterproductive, causing a decrease in production and satisfaction among some groups. In contrast, when used with newly formed production units, the transactional style has been known to improve employee engagement and response (Breevaart et al., 2014).
However, resilience may also be described as the innate human quality that has not necessarily developed only after big disasters but processed through positive adaptation. A person can be resilient if he/she experience positive life events such as a job promotion, wedding, birth of a new child or having a new pet. These incidents would require the person to perform new roles and responsibilities and he/she can develop resilience to these changes overtime. This is resilience acquired through positive adaption (Fletcher & Sarkar,
Resilience isn't a quality that individuals either have or don't have. It includes practice, musings and activities that can be learned and created by anybody. Research has demonstrated that resilience is customary, not unprecedented. Individuals normally exhibit resilience.
According to Masten (2001) “resiliency refers to a class of phenomena characterized by good outcomes in spite of serious threats to adaptation or development” (p. 228). Garmezy (1991) considers the intelligence level of an individual and ability to possess the mind power to tackle an adverse situation as one pleases as the core characteristics of a resilient individual. Garmezy (1991) resiliency framework allows student affairs professionals is to examine the strengths of disadvantaged students who are faced with various life stressors, but
One the other hand Melinda was the youngest woman recruit in Microsoft and the only woman in among MBAs, this show to us that Melinda was competing with man for a higher position and wanted to be in charge in order to achieve her goals. Second dimension is agreeablenesses which include traits related to getting along with people. Agreeableness means that a person is warm, caring,