Abstract
Compassion fatigue is a reality for many faculty as their role has expanded from teaching content to caring for their students' basic needs to being a first line of defense in the classroom. It is exhausting and contributes to widespread burnout.
Healthy teachers can create healthy learning environments and inspire creativity. Faculty are on track for compassion fatigue after pivoting during the 2020 pandemic and continuing to do so. This session will look at some practices and encourage faculty to do self-care. As they role model self-care, they can encourage their students also to practice self-care. During this presentation, we will discuss how we encourage a cohort of faculty to practice self-care with weekly reminders, discussions, ideas, and practices and offer ideas of how to complete it for oneself and use it in the classroom.
This presentation offers concrete examples of self-care in the academic world and helps participants outline some first steps they might want to take to bring that to their classroom.
References:
Boogren, T. H. (2018). Take time for your: Self-care action plans for educators. Solution Tree: Bloomington, IN.
Boogren, T. H. (2020) 180 days of self-care for busy educators. Solution Tree: Bloomington, IN.