Work-life Balance When You’re Teaching from Home

The primary advantages of online teaching – such as working at your convenience and from your own home—are often overrun by the main disadvantage: working where you live. Teaching online from your home can make drawing a tangible line between work and life difficult. As professionals, students, parents, friends, and spouses, working and living in the same space can strain your ability to balance and determine “work time” and “downtime”, often leading to an insufficient work-life balance. You can keep a work-life balance when you’re teaching from home. Be generous and have yourself compassion to teach online. 

The nature of their work, academic stream, workplace environment, colleagues, and personal life all have a direct and positive impact on the quality of their work-life balance.

Teachers have struggled to have a work-life balance when they were teaching from home, particularly during the pandemic, when they were forced to adopt an online mode of teaching.

A good work-life balance, on the other hand, results in faculty wellness, gives a sense of job satisfaction, and aids in improved student performance.

What could you do to keep work and life from being completely entwined when they become so intertwined?

-Maintain a calendar

-Take help from family

-Share your schedule with your family

-Avoid burnout 

-Take good care of your physical and mental health. 

-Have a dedicated workspace, if possible

At the best of times, work-life balance when you’re teaching from home can be difficult to achieve. In a global crisis, it can be daunting. The most important function of the strategies above is to give you the space & the strength to keep going. Make these simple changes and watch the difference they can make in your life.