Wellness and Wellbeing of Early Childhood Educators Presentation

This presentation delves into the critical topic of wellness and wellbeing among early childhood educators, emphasizing its profound impact on both educators and the children they serve. It begins by defining health and wellbeing, outlining factors that influence them. The presentation highlights the importance of early childhood education and the characteristics of quality settings, underscoring the educator's pivotal role. It then explores factors that negatively affect educators' wellbeing, including work pressure, stress, fatigue, burnout, and workplace bullying, with consideration of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological system and social-emotional competence. The presentation further examines how educators' wellbeing directly affects children's development and welfare. Finally, it proposes strategies to enhance educators' wellness, such as increasing resources, creating committees to address workplace issues, arranging seminars for social-emotional skill development, and fostering open communication channels. The presentation concludes by reiterating the importance of educator wellbeing as a cornerstone for ensuring the wellbeing of children.

Wellness and well-
being of early
childhood educators
Name of the Student

What is health and well-
being?
Health
• Health is not only the
absence of physical
maladies or illness but
ability to perform
individual’s necessary
daily activities in a
competent manner as
well as sound mental
health.
Well- being
Well- being of an
individual can be defined
by following
characteristics:
o Positive affect
o Balance of attributes
o Personal optimisation
o Satisfaction in life
o Multiple dimensions
o Pro- social behaviour

Factors which affects health
and well-being

Why is early childhood
education important?
• It has various benefits to a
child's development.
• Benefits includes:
 holistic development
 Learn the value of
education
 improve socialisation and
co-operation
 brain development
improved patience and
concentration
• They might even develop a
life long love for education.

What is a quality early
childhood education settings?
• Characteristics of quality
childhood education system:
Staffs whom are highly skilled
Small class sizes
Staff to child ratio should be high.
A language rich environment for
the student
Safe physical settings for the
children
Stimulating materials and
curricula which are age
appropriate
Warm, caring, and responsive
communication and interaction
between the children and staff

Educators role in quality
childhood education

Factors which affecting
educators well-being
Work pressure, Stress,
Fatigue and Burnout
• The reasons which engenders
stress, fatigue and burnout among
this centre’s educators are:
The staffs and educators had to
provide quality service with
meagre resources available to
them.
The administration and parents
are putting lot of expectation on
the educators for the children’s
development.
Managing bad behaviours of
student like violence, misconduct,
and lack of attention
Bronfenbrenner’s (1979)
ecological system

Factors which affecting
educators well-being (contd.)
Work Place Bullying
• The reasons behind the
workplace bullying in this
centre are:
Meagre resources which
increases the workload for
everyone.
Verbal abuse from the parents
for students’ poor results.
This centre has diverse
educational staff and racism
is one of the reason for
bullying.

Factors which affecting
educators well-being (contd.)
Social – Emotional
competence
• Every individuals should be
equipped with social and
emotional skills and
techniques.
• Person’s ability to handle
work place stress is
dependent on that individuals
social and emotional skills.
No precaution were taken by
this organisation to equip its
employee with social and
emotional skills.

How does educators well-being
have effect on children?
• It can be
psychologically
damaging to the
children.
• It can have negative
effect on total
development of the
children.
• Educators well- being
is must for children’s
well being.

Strategies to enhance educators
wellness and well being
• increase of
resources in the
centre, so that
there is less
overload or work
for the staff and
educators
• Creation of a
committee to
monitor work place
bullying and racism
within the centre.

Strategies to enhance educators
wellness and well being (Contd.)
• Arrangement of seminar
or workshop where the
employee can learn about
the social and emotional
skills to better handling of
work place stress.
• open space for teachers
to talk about work place
stress and where they can
de- stress.
• Provision of guidance on
how teachers should
interact with the parents.

Summary
• Early childhood education is very much important
for a child’s individual development.
• Quality early education centre is one of the
required aspect for this.
• High skilled educators is necessary part of this
system
• Additionally, well– being of the educators is
equally important.
• Preventive measure should be taken to maintain
the well- being of the educators which in turn will
ensure the well- being of the children.

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