Promoting teacher' well-being: Communication, mindfulness, and self-regulation

Promoting the well-being of others is a central value of a community psychologist (Visser & Moleko, 2012). We as Community psychology students strive to fulfil this value through our community and social psychology module. Our group worked alongside each other to create an intervention to promote the teacher’s well-being at Lettie Fouche school, placing focus on communication strategies and conflict management. Communication strategies can be defined as much-needed tools when engaging in social interactions and can act as guidelines when interacting with the public, co-workers, and stakeholders (Ekeowa, 2016; Neuvonen et al., 2021). Conflict can have an impact on the work environment and social interactions between the employees and this can lead to lowering levels of productivity and job satisfaction (Ayoko, 2016). When the focus is placed on teachers’, conflict can have an impact on the learning environment as well as the teacher’s performance at work (Valento & Lourenco, 2020).This portfolio would consist of the description of the project, the planning that went into the project, in-depth theoretical grounding, references to other modules, ethical considerations, the evaluation of our intervention, and challenges faced by the group. At the end of the portfolio, there would be an appendix attached. Which will consist of our podcast transcript, self-refection paragraphs of every member of the group, needs assessment and feedback Google form, peer review feedback forms, group member contribution, a photo of the group members and the teachers, and a poster. Lastly, a turn-it-in report will also be attached.