1. Teachers' profession and needs

As a teacher, you have chosen a profession in which you are on the one hand a mediator of knowledge and competences, and on the other hand a guide for your pupils in their development.

But what about you as a person?

Do you as a person tend to stay in the background because you think that your own opinion has no place in the classroom? - Or, on the contrary, do you find it particularly important to act as a role model for your pupils?

Can you fully identify with the role attributed to you as a teacher by your pupils and colleagues?  - Or do you sometimes have the feeling that you are not perceived enough as a person or as a human being in your profession? Then you are in the same situation as many of your colleagues.

This module is all about you and your needs!

You can use the suggestions and instructions in this module for yourself,

• This module is all about you and your needs!
• You can use the suggestions and instructions in this module for yourself,
• to reflect on your personal needs in the work context, either on your own or together with colleagues.
• to develop an empathic and appreciative approach to your own feelings, including unpleasant ones.
• to develop positive strategies to better meet your personal needs.
• to express your own needs and wishes in words that others can understand and are more likely to fulfil.
• Understand and respond to pupils' and colleagues' motives for certain behaviours.

Also use the NeedsType Questionnaire to find out which need is most important to you, i.e. where you invest the most effort to fulfil it.