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Webinar: The Impact of COVID-19 on Teachers’ Mental Health: Managing Psychological and Emotional Well-Being

LEARNTech Asia
By LEARNTech Asia

Date: Wednesday, 28 October 2020
Time: 11:00 AM Singapore/Manila Time
10:00 AM Bangkok/Jakarta Time
11:00 PM US Eastern Time

Synopsis

“I’m also considering resigning … I’m not willing to risk my life over it,” a teacher from Yorkshire told The Independent; another teacher from the Philippines told The Jakarta Post “we also have our own … fears and anxieties. Aside from being classroom teachers, we are also wives, mothers, husbands who have roles and responsibilities in our families.”

In the Philippines, teachers have been the frontliners of learning as they scrambled to make sure that learning doesn’t stop.

Having expressed emotional distress is only the beginning of the warning signs, it is still too early to predict the extent of the psychological impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the education workforce. While these signs are still being observed and studied, teachers will have to endure the burdens on their shoulders for the benefit of the students. 

Teachers were desperately coping with the urgent call to replace teaching in a classroom to teaching from home. Putting aside the question of the whole learning process and the quality of education, much pressure was on teachers to develop an emergency plan for remote teaching – hoping to run a class “as normal.” In addition to the swift change of job roles, teachers were expected to equip themselves with, if not learn, digital skills.

In the face of reality, not only had they to juggle with the interrupted curriculum, syllabus and school activities, and deal with personal struggles at home, teachers had to learn to adapt to a “new” teaching environment with inadequate facilities and resources. The competing demands of needs, both at work and at home, are ahead of their psychological and emotional needs. 

So much attention has been paid for education continuity, yet so little to teachers’ preparedness during these challenging times. To survive the shift, mental health should be placed as a priority. It is important for leaders to support the teachers by not just acknowledging their emotional needs, but also investing in teachers’ training to afford a whole new learning ecosystem. 

Join us at the LEARNWith Expert series and get practical well-being tips and guidelines in prioritizing mental health needs for an appropriate balanced life.

Speakers

Llewelyn Issa B. dela Cruz
Program Manager, Education Advocacy and Research Department

Ms. Llewelyn Issa B. dela Cruz is the current Program Manager of PMHA’s primary program, the Education Advocacy and Research Department (EARD). Her team is at the forefront of PMHA’s effort to promote mental health, prevent mental disorders and encourage people to become advocates by providing lectures and learning sessions to various members of the community. She has provided various lectures on Mental Health Psychosocial Support as well as Psychological First Aid to health workers and professionals.

Ms. Dela Cruz earned her Master’s Degree in Education Major in Guidance from the University of the Philippines. She is a Registered Psychologist and Guidance Counselor, and a Clinical Psychology practitioner for the last 23 years. She has conducted assessment and provided psychosocial intervention to people with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Learning Disability and other Neurodevelopmental Disorders. She also practices psychotherapy and has helped adolescent and adult clients who were diagnosed with Depression, Bipolar Disorder and Anxiety Disorders.

Prof Sandra M. Chafouleas
Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, Department of Educational Psychology

Sandra M. Chafouleas, Ph.D., is a Distinguished Professor of Educational Psychology and Co-Director of the Collaboratory on School and Child Health at the University of Connecticut. She authors a Psychology Today blog on promoting student well-being. Her work focuses on assisting schools in implementation of evidence-informed policies and practices that support the whole child, with specific expertise in strategies to strengthen mental health and emotional well-being.

Dr. Chafouleas is a fellow in both the American Psychological Association and Association for Psychological Science. Prior to becoming a university trainer, Dr. Chafouleas worked as a school psychologist and administrator in a variety of settings supporting the needs of children with behavior disorders.

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46 COMMENTS

  1. Thank you very much for the opportunity to this Webinar, I believe that it will help to the Teachers management program in a classroom in this pandemic time.

  5. Good day, I’m very interested with the topics when I read the synopsis, it feels that we should still have a moral courage at this moment to share our experiences and expertise to our students and deal those worries, anxieties, challenges and difficulties we are facing.

  6. This is a very timely webinar especially for teachers during this time of pandemic and for us educators to be aware of the different practices and management of Mental Health also.

  7. This is a very interesting topic and one that needs to be given serious thought by the education bureaucracy.

  12. looking forward for much infoa and learninga on how to help myself and others in terms of mental health in this pandemic. Thank you for having this opportunity.

  15. Thank you, learntechasia.com and the entire team! Looking forward for this webinar… need to boost the mental and emotional capacity of our educators…😊

  16. Hi, it says in the poster the schedule is GMT+8 but under the Registration form in this page it says the webinar will be at 10am Philippine time, or an hour earlier. Could you please clarify?

    Thank you.

  36. Learning something new due to current situation will be very valuable to all teachers and students.

  37. Thank so much for this opportunity, a never ending learning from my part. Congratulations in advance to the speakers and the team.

  43. Thank you for that very informative webinar. Is there an e-certificate? Where can we get it?

    • Thanks for your interest in our webinar. We do not issue e-certificates for our one-hour webinars. Thank you.

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