The teacher should follow a regular program for healthful living- diet, exercise and rest or break periods. The teacher should participate in school and local activities, and become a member of a civic association, the church or the PTA.

          The teacher should develop wider area of interests,motives, reading and occasional card games are no enough – he should participate in those activities that promote self-esteem, such as church meetings, Red Cross, drama and art.

          Teachers can try writing articles and doing activities that can have a tonic effect as worries and tension can be temporarily relegated to the background if they have a talent for writing, singing or gathering. Reading articles about how frustrating solutions are handled and solved can be of help.

          Another way is to  “let of steam”, chopping wood, gardening, taking long walk, crying out loud alone can alley thwarted feelings.

Once tension is eased, a more constructive course of action can be planned.

          An analysis of action for the problem facing a teacher can place it in a true perfective and may convince the teacher that he is better of that others. Or he takes a short vacation by himself. He takes time out and ponder on the pleasure, the thrill that he gets from teaching. Just to watch and help young people correct mistakes, learn new ideas and take over some responsibilities – in short, watch them respond to the teacher’s effort is mental  hygiene for a teacher.

By: Edwina B. Gatmen | Teacher II | Bagac Elementary School | Bagac, Bataan