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Mindful Teacher, Mindful School

Improving Wellbeing in Teaching and Learning
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By: Kevin Hawkins

With this guide to mindful practice, teachers new and experienced can learn how to use mindfulness in their own professional and personal lives as well as how to incorporate it in their teaching to support student wellbeing.

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  • Grade Level: PreK-12
  • ISBN: 9781526402868
  • Published By: Sage UK
  • Year: 2017
  • Page Count: 208
  • Publication date: June 12, 2017

Price: $36

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Former school teacher turned mindfulness consultant Kevin Hawkins truly understands the joys of teaching and the desire to make a real difference in the lives of students, as well as the challenges and risks of burnout that most teachers experience on a daily basis.

With this guide to mindful practice, teachers new and experienced can learn how to use mindfulness in their own professional and personal lives as well as how to incorporate it in their teaching to support student well-being. Combining theory with practice and illustrated with real life stories, this guide will show readers:
  • What mindfulness is
  • The research and scientific evidence behind it
  • How changing the way you approach situations can transform the way you feel
  • How to manage stress, and look after yourself
  • How teaching mindfully can help your students
  • What mindfulness can do for the culture in your school
Packed with DIY exercises, activities to use in the classroom, and links to resources and further reading, this inspiring book will support experienced and new teachers to maintain a healthy work-life balance and thrive as a teaching professional.


- Check out our free ebook A Little Guide to Mindfulness
- Read blog post How well are we? An Education System Under Stress
Author(s)

Author(s)

Kevin Hawkins

Kevin Hawkins is an independent speaker, consultant and teacher trainer. He has worked with children and adolescents in various contexts for over 40 years as a teacher, school head and social worker, in the UK, Europe and Africa. He has taught across the age ranges in state schools and in international schools, with a focus on developing the whole child through balancing academic, social and emotional aspects of learning.

Kevin started teaching mindful awareness to students, teachers and parents in 2008, and in 2012 he co-founded MindWell (www.mindwell-education.com) which supports educational communities in developing awareness-based wellbeing through mindfulness and social-emotional learning. His first book, Mindful Teacher Mindful School, Improving wellbeing in teaching and learning, was published by SAGE/Corwin in 2017.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Shifting The Focus

Chapter 2: Mindfulness: What is it? How can it help?

Chapter 3: Being Mindful: Stress Management and Self-Care

Chapter 4: Teaching Mindfully

Part 1: Bringing Mindful Awareness Into Our Classrooms


Part 2: Mindfulness and Relationship Competence in Teacher Training


Chapter 5: Teaching Mindfulness

Chapter 6: Mindfulness, Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) and Wellbeing

Part 1: Situating Mindful Awareness Training In Schools


Part 2: Mindfulness Based SEL in the classroom


Chapter 7: Mindful Teacher, Mindful School: Changing School Cultures

Chapter 8: Beyond Our Classrooms: Aligning with the Wider World

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