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Navigating Workplace Stress in Early Childhood Education
Share what makes your job stressful and discuss creative ways to handle stress at work with fellow educators. How do you create a positive environment for yourself and the children you work with?
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One of my biggest stress is adapting to unexpected changes in the daily routine. I’ve
found creating a flexible schedule with built-in transition times helps
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What makes my job stressful is parents who are in denial. When I come to them with an issue and they deny the issue. To make it less stressful for me, I remember that I can only control myself and control the environment I choose to be in. I do my best at work and take deep breaths when needed.
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Too much on my plate.
To reduce stress on cutting paper, and decorating the classroom. I have parents volunteer to do the cutting paper and decorating the classroom. To help lower my stress more, I keep a planner/ calender handy to remind myself what order should get done first.
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What makes my job frustrating and stressful is when I feel like I’m doing all the work in the classroom when the other teacher doesn’t do anything but engage with the kids. Like there’s nothing else to do in the classroom but play with kids. But I look over it take a deep breath and keep working.
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Having new students that have not been to school or without their parents. There typically is some high emotions and crying. I do my best to stay calm, nurture the child, while still working. The crying all day can get to all staff, so I always let the team know if you need a few moments, take 5 and come back.
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one of the things that have caused me stress in my work environment is not having support from our management team. one way that i have tried to deal with this kind of stress so that it doesn’t impact me or the kids is to lean on my fellow coworkers as much as possible.
