Cultivating Teacher Resilience

Dr Caroline Mansfield is a Professor and Dean of the School of Education at The University of Notre Dame Australia, Fremantle. As a passionate teacher and teacher educator, Caroline has taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses on effective teaching, strategies to enhance student learning, and resilience in educational contexts. She has received awards of excellence for research, teaching and service to the community. Caroline’s research has centred on teacher resilience and wellbeing, particularly at the pre-service and early career stages. With the critical role teacher education plays in setting the stage for a successful career, Caroline has led three projects on supporting resilience at the pre-service level, most notably the internationally unique and successful BRiTE (Building Resilience in Teacher Education) project. Completed in 2015, the five BRiTE online learning modules continue to be widely used nationally by pre-service and practicing teachers, and have also attracted international users in the UK, Europe, USA and Canada. In 2016 Caroline was awarded a National Learning and Teaching Fellowship (Staying BRiTE) to collaborate with colleagues across Australia and develop contextually responsive approaches to promoting pre-service teacher resilience in higher education programs. Caroline’s future research will focus on the conditions that enable teachers to maintain engagement, commitment and motivation, and to thrive throughout their careers.

Section 1 Introduction.- 1 Why teacher resilience?.- 2 Understanding and examining teacher resilience from multiple perspectives.- 3 A BRiTE journey.- Section 2 Implementation and Applications.- 4 Staying BRiTE: An introduction.- 5 Connecting, embedding and developing BRiTE across multiple levels.- 6 Thinking dispositions for teaching: Enabling and supporting resilience in context.- 7 Implementing BRiTE in Initial Teacher Education Programs: through the eyes of the teacher educators.- 8 Doing it resiliently: Using arts-based approaches to embed resilience in professional experience learning.- 9 Building resilience for Early Years teachers.- 10 BRiTE mind: An online module to support mindful teacher resilience.- Section 3 Interventions and Impact.- 11 Building Resilience: Using BRiTE with beginning teachers in the US.- 12 Positive education: A professional learning programme to foster teacher's resilience and well-being.- 13 The professional assessment and development induction program:Application of the BRiTE project to the Spanish context.- 14 Practical applications for building teacher wellbeing in education.- 15 Understanding teacher wellbeing through job demands-resources theory.- Section 4 Future Directions.- 16 BRiTE-AR ways to prepare preservice teachers: Augmented reality addressing conflict and stress.- 17 Staying BRiTE in the Dutch teacher education context.- 18 Navigating changing times: Exploring teacher educator experiences of resilience.- 19 Looking back and moving forward.