Teachers' professional wellbeing - A Digital Game Based Social-Emotional Learning Intervention

Teachers worldwide experience significant stress and burnout, impacting their health and the education systems. Recognizing the importance of social, prosocial, and emotional skills in education adds to this complexity.
The European Policy Experimentation Project Teaching to Be (2021-2024) in Austria, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, and Spain, aimed to improve teacher wellbeing through innovative professional development.
A digital game-based Online Wellbeing Course and a Teacher's Handbook were developed in the project to enhance various aspects of teachers' professional wellbeing and organizational health. Using a mixed-methods research approach, it evaluated digital interventions on wellbeing, leading to tailored policy recommendations for enhancing teacher professional development and mental health.

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Christian Wiesner, Baiba Martinsone, Maria Therese Jensen
and Kerstin Angelika Zechner
Wellbeing in the teachers' profession: Theoretical Considerations
and Multi-Cultural Research in Europe .............................................................9
Chapter 2 - Spain
Alba Merino-Cajaraville, Carlos Ramírez-Moreno, Irene García-Lázaro
and Salvador Reyes-de-Cózar
Defining a game-based learning proposal to work with teachers'
professional wellbeing: the Teaching to Be video game.....................................35
Chapter 3 - Latvia
Baiba Martinsone and Aija Vanaga
Approaching teachers' professional wellbeing from different angles:
Teachers' self-efficacy, burnout and resilience through participation
in the Online Wellbeing course........................................................................55
Chapter 4 - Portugal
José Reis-Jorge, Patrícia Pacheco, Marco Ferreira, Ana Barqueira
and Isabel Baltazar
School climate and teachers' professional wellbeing in Portugal:
A School Climate Analytical Framework (SCAF).............................................81
Chapter 5 - Norway
Kaja Lillelien, Trond Rekstad and Maria Therese Jensen
Developing and Implementing a Cross-Cultural Digital Intervention
on teachers' professional well-being in a Norwegian Context .........................107
Chapter 6 - Lithuania
Vilma ydinait and Aura Rutkien
Professional Burnout and its Relation to Self-Efficacy and Perceived Stress:
The Case of Lithuanian Teachers....................................................................127
Chapter 7 - Austria
Christian Wiesner, Kerstin Angelika Zechner, Sylvia Dörfler, Hannes Karrer
and Beate Schrank
Perspectives for unfolding well-being in the context of teacher education:
Emerging well-being Insights from Theoretical Austrian Traditions................159
Authors.......................................................................................................181