Vol. 10 No. 2 (2021): Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators
Articles

Encouraging Teachers to Experience Emodiversity: A Reflective Retelling of a Mental Health Initiative

Published 2024-12-06

Keywords

  • Mental Health,
  • Physiological Genesis

How to Cite

Encouraging Teachers to Experience Emodiversity: A Reflective Retelling of a Mental Health Initiative. (2024). Voices of Teachers and Teacher Educators, 10(2), p. 107-111. http://45.127.197.188:8090/index.php/vtte/article/view/1761

Abstract

I was reminded just the other day that I am an emotional educator. This scarcely need a remark, as the majority of educators would concur. What is worth writing about is that I was told this by two distinct education stakeholders (a student and a colleague) in response to somewhat unrelated actions of mine (giving a student who needed both a cup of coffee and a shoulder to weep on, and crying as I recalled a student's academic experience to the aforementioned colleague) and with completely different emotional tones (thank you, and apprehension mixed with disapproval, respectively). I returned from my office that evening in a dazed condition after being reminded by a well-meaning but obviously dissatisfied coworker that I give classes on school mental health.