QoC Session: Empowering Teachers for Wellbeing: Unlocking Creativity, Autonomy, and Resilience

This 90-minute policy event will focus on the critical need to prioritise wellbeing in schools, bringing together policymakers, educators, practitioners, and civil society for a productive dialogue. As teacher stress, burnout, and workload challenges grow, so does the urgency to improve the teaching profession's attractiveness and create healthy working conditions that allow educators to thrive.

The event will present the European Commission's guidelines on supporting well-being in schools, zooming in on the elements most relevant to enhancing teacher wellbeing and illustrating these with good practice examples. We’ll explore how fostering teacher autonomy, creativity, and resilience can improve not only educators' work-life balance but also the learning environment for children.

Key topics will include:

• Granting teachers more autonomy and agency to increase self-efficacy and job satisfaction.

• Reducing workload pressures by focusing on a healthy teaching economy

• Encouraging creativity and innovative approaches to teaching that benefit both teachers and students.