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Teacher well-being in early childhood : a resource for early care and education professionals /

This comprehensive, user-friendly book provides a rationale and guidance for integrating teacher well-being content into both preservice and inservice professional learning environments. It explores the connections between teacher well-being, equity and social justice, and shares examples of well-be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Baum, Angela C., 1971- (Author), Schnake, Kerrie L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College Press, [2024].
Series:Early childhood education series (Teachers College Press)
Subjects:
Early childhood teachers > Job stress > United States.
Early childhood teachers > Job satisfaction.
Early childhood teachers > Attitudes.
Well-being.
Early childhood teachers > In-service training > United States.
Early childhood teachers > Training of > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Laying the foundation: Understanding early childhood teacher well-being
  • Key issues addressed in this chapter
  • What is well-being?
  • Well-being and early childhood care and education professionals
  • The eight dimensions of wellness
  • Influences on the eight dimensions of wellness
  • Our guiding conceptual framework
  • Summary and conclusions
  • The importance of teacher well-being
  • Key issues addressed in this chapter
  • The impact of teacher well-being
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Well-being within early childhood teacher preparation programs
  • Key issues addressed in this chapter
  • Facilitating preservice teachers' understandings of teacher well-being
  • What teacher well-being is . . . and what it isn't
  • Understanding and supporting the well-being of preservice teachers
  • Supporting early childhood teacher well-being
  • Through effective teacher preparation
  • Strategies to manage personal well-being
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Promoting well-being with practicing teachers
  • Key issues addressed in this chapter
  • Promoting early childhood educator
  • Well-being across the ecosystem
  • Relationships: The magic sauce in every well-being recipe
  • Well-being champions
  • Readiness for change
  • Goal setting
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Learning from others: Illustrations of well-being
  • Programs and initiatives
  • Key issues addressed in this chapter
  • Supported self-care
  • Limited well-being promotion activities
  • Examples of well-being programs for early
  • Childhood educators
  • Summary and conclusions
  • Wells and frontiers: Deepening and broadening our understanding of teacher well-being through the intersectionality of race and gender
  • Dr. Eva Marie Shivers
  • Rationale
  • Framework(s)
  • History of childcare workers in the United States through a racialized lens
  • Social and structural determinants of teachers' well-being
  • Attachment, culture, and trauma
  • Internal processes
  • Moving from margin to center: How can we deepen and expand our awareness of teacher well-being?
  • Spirituality-Black liberation theology
  • Conclusion: A call to decolonize our understanding and support of teacher well-being
  • Where do we go from here?:
  • Considerations for policy and practice
  • Key issues addressed in this chapter
  • Education, penalties, and myths
  • Fair compensation and the burden of early
  • Childhood education costs
  • Regulations, standards, and measures of quality
  • Societal perceptions of young children and early childhood educators
  • Summary and conclusions.