Benefits for educators and instructors . . .

Today we are hearing more and more about burnout. Rather than becoming overly focused on the many reasons this may be so, I suggest the acceptance of that possibility and more importantly, focus on what can be done to manage this?  

"Instructors with high levels of social competence are better able to protect themselves from burnout"  (Jennings and Greenberg 2009).  Here are some examples of how this can be accomplished:

~ fostering nurturing relationships with children

~regulating your own emotions

~serving as positive role models for children

~mastery over socially and emotionally challenged situations

(Jennings and Greenberg 2009)

This is what the M.Y. Time Program is poised to accomplish. Through the many social and emotional learning based activities, you can feel secure that you are “putting money in the bank” to draw upon when the need arises. From personal experience, I have found that children and adults will draw from this bank of strategies to better regulate emotions and actions.