In busy school environments, multi-tasking feels like a survival skill. You’re replying to emails, managing student (and parent) behaviour, planning lessons and supporting colleagues — often all at once. But here’s the truth: multi-tasking is not making you more productive. It’s slowing you down, increasing errors and burning you out.
Doing something to help others can make us feel good. Engaging in acts of kindness is one of the more reliable ways of boosting OUR mood. This is no surprise. The science of positive psychology has furthered our understanding on the impact of acts of kindness on the person who performs them. Choosing to do things for the benefit of others, activates pleasure centres in the brain.