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Helping Teachers Grow is always looking for original material from teachers on the front lines of our school system. If you have a story you want to tell about how you dealt with difficult classroom situations and were able to overcome those difficulties, we want to hear about it. Email us to share your experiences.

HelpingTeachersGrow.com is a leading provider of online training for teachers as well as respect-based classroom management plans. Private teacher training and individual coaching is available upon request.

stress.free.classrooms

...the key to building successful classrooms and successful students.

Teachers and stress

If you've been in the classroom for any amount of time, you've experienced stress. Teachers are notorious for bottling up their stress. Wouldn't it be nice to have a stress free classroom?

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If you are battling stress in the classroom, visit our classroom management blog! It's loaded with tons of tips, tricks, and thoughts about how to make your teaching job just a bit easier.

We all feel stress from our jobs. Perhaps your stress comes from...

-parents
-unmotivated students
-standardized testing
-performance pressures
-administration oversight
-disrespectful students
-juggling responsibilities

Regardless of the source of your stress, if you are more effective and efficient in the classroom, you will have more energy to deal more healthfully with your stress.

Doesn't that sound good?

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- a note from Darren Barkett, the creator of Helping Teachers Grow

I have been where you are. I know what you are feeling. I understand the frustration of not being able to reach your students, of not being able to connect with them and help them grow. I feel your pain, and I want you to know that you have found the help you need to continue growing as a teacher.

There was a time when I lost my temper with my students nearly every day. Luckily, I had someone looking out for me. This principal saw me struggling and gave me the opportunity to receive classroom management training, training that wasn't difficult to implement or even modify as I grew as a professional.

Now, twelve years later, I can honestly say that I haven't lost my temper even once since I took that classroom management course! I manage my classes now with an even temperment. I can laugh with my students while they laugh with me. My students genuinely feel comfortable in my classes. I have the least number of student referrals to the office of anyone in my school. And I finish each day feeling successful and relatively stress-free.