Teacher Survival Camp - general information
Successful teaching is the goal of every teacher.
This is not always easy to achieve.
The number of teachers who show symptoms of burn out and psychosomatic challenges seems to grow. The Teacher Survival Camp is dedicated to all committed teachers, who too often invest all their power into their demanding job.There are strategies to avoid this or to escape from this vicious circle. Conscious communication, stress-reducing tools, and a working conflict solving model help the teachers to stay or get healthy in their job.
I developed the Teacher Survival Camp during the Comenius project “Neues Lernen – Train the Trainer”. All my experience in the field of working with adolescents with deficits in social behaviour was invested, as well as the trainings, which I have attended. Here I want to thank Hans Peter Kobler, Franz Ludescher, and Patrick Miller, who have taught me a lot. Many books had to be read, and many try and error attempts were needed in order to create a set of techniques, which really help. After I had designed the teacher training materials, the TSC was tried out in pilot courses. I had the chance to collect feedback from many teachers from various countries. In July 2007 the final version of the materials was sent to the Comenius office in Brussels. In 2008 I updated and extended my course materials.
The TSC is a part of the modular Neues Lernen teacher training, which can be completed within 15 days of training.I am looking forward to meeting many of you in one of my TSCs or hear from your attendances of a TSC which was run by one of the NL trainers.