Teacher well-being hub
The place to go for ideas and strategies on supporting your well-being and maintaining good mental health
Maintaining good mental health
Maintaining good mental heath
How to achieve a work-life balance that works for you and keeps you mentally well
How can an educational psychologist help with teacher mental health?
Educational psychologist Katy Goymour gives her advice on stress management
Teachers talk about their mental health
Teachers share their experiences with mental ill health
Where to find mental health support
Sources of support for teachers experiencing mental ill health
Latest articles about teacher health and well-being
How do you feel about working in science education?
Tell us what it’s like by taking part in the Science teaching survey, and we can improve our support for you
Why I’ve not retired yet
Find out why a chemistry teacher is still in the classroom and the rewards they find in teaching
Make time for time off
How to not spend your holidays planning for the new term
What’s it really like to be a science teacher?
Challenging but rewarding was the consensus in 2022, but let’s find out if that’s still the case
Burnt-out and exhausted
Recent surveys and statistics echo anecdotal evidence that teachers are overworked and stressed. And it’s no different for science teachers
Moving on from workplace bullying
Discover how one teacher stepped away from an unhealthy situation at a school to restore his mental health and teaching career
Science leader?
Discover our teacher well-being toolkit
If you’re a science leader and a Teach Chemistry member, our teacher well-being toolkit offers tips, techniques and resources for supporting teachers in your school
How to know if it’s the right school for you
Advice and insight to help you find the perfect job
Get support from … Teaching Staff Trust
Helping you through financial pressures
Life after teaching
What would you do if faced with early retirement after 30 years in the chemistry classroom?
How to use stay interviews to retain and motivate teachers
Ask teachers the right questions at the right time to ensure they stay – and flourish
Get support from … Chemists’ Community Fund
If you’re a teacher and RSC member, here’s how to get help with everything from your well-being to financial planning
Giving up teacher training
A recent teacher trainee explains how the planning workload ruins the job they love
Get support from … ASE
Helping science teachers and technicians gain job satisfaction, and helping department heads to understand their teams
Looking out for one another
Taking care of our mental health and well-being is all our responsibilities, every day
Improving retention of science teachers
What keeps great science teachers in the classroom?
Get support from … Education Support
From a free helpline to peer support groups, Education Support is dedicated to improving teachers’ mental health and well-being
Workplace bullying
A first-person account of surviving and standing up to bullies
How to succeed as a new science teacher
Four fab hacks to help you thrive in your first years of teaching science
What does the future of education look like?
Searching for a silver lining in the clouds on the education horizon
Here comes the summer
We think a lot about what students forget over the summer break, but what about teachers?
Classroom questions: Reducing teacher talk, beating NQT exhaustion and boosting test performance
Experts answer questions about reducing teacher talk, NQT exhaustion and helping pupils whose test performance doesn’t match their classroom understanding
Teacher mental health: working together to beat burnout
Let this Mental health awareness week be a reminder to appreciate and support yourself and your colleagues
Asking for help
Teachers report being stressed and not receiving enough guidance about their mental health. Is compulsory counselling the solution?
When All This Is Over®
Looking back on 2020 what should we keep? asks EiC’s managing editor Paul MacLellan, tongue firmly in cheek