Teacher Support Network is an independent charity dedicated to providing vital support to teachers like you – when you are training, throughout your career and beyond. Our free services include:
- Telephone and online coaching: practical and emotional support personalised via a secure email system or phone.
- Telephone and online counselling: confidential, solution-focused counselling on personal and professional issues.
- Information and support material: news, guides and factsheets on relevant issues such as stress management, work-life balance and classroom management.
- Signposting: help finding relevant partner organisations, including unions, local authorities and other service providers.
- Money advice: individually tailored strategies to address financial difficulties restructure debts and secure benefits and obtain other statutory entitlements.
- Financial assistance: the needs-based provision of grants and loans for qualified teachers.
Our online coaching includes eight unique focussed programmes covering virtually any area on which you would like to work with a coach. Each of our online programmes consists of six sessions, including an initial assessment and a final evaluation. These sessions should span no more than six weeks but the time and frequency of communication is up to you and your coach. You can choose from the following themes:
Work Related Issues | Professional and Personal Development | Health and Fitness Issues | Personal Finances | Work-Life Balance | Relationship Issues | Emotional Wellbeing | Action Learning
Remember you are not alone. There are people within your school who will support you, along with your union, your local authority and independent organisations such the Teacher Support Network. To ask for help is not to admit defeat: it is a sign of strength.
If you can develop your own personal style while building strong relationships with those around you, you’re already on the path to success. Your future career awaits: good luck and happy teaching!
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