Six Dimensions Of Wellness Model

Situation Analysis With increased responsibility, broader job roles, increased demand, dealing with complaints and emphasis on performance management the professional role in all employment sectors has changed rapidly over the last few years. Teachers have not been immune to this change and it is now widely recognised that the teacher’s role has moved away from a traditional teaching role to one which is more a combination of teacher, administrator and manager.
A teacher in professional usage is a person trained or recognized and employed to help learning in classroom situation, in order to achieve set educational goals. This refers to anybody that imparts knowledge or attempts to help someone acquire certain skills, attitude and creates,
The need thus, arise to take a look at what becomes of their personal health after discharging their voluminous assignments. Teachers spend so much time doing mental gymnastics without commensurate efforts to take care of their health status (Ogunjimi and Yusuf, 2006). So much time is given to this process to the extent that often, the body and their wellness status end up last on the priority list forgetting that nothing else matters without
The six dimensions of wellness include the physical, intellectual, emotional, social, spiritual, and occupational wellness (Hettler, 2007).
Physical wellness as defined by the national Wellness Institute refers to the degree to which one maintains physical fitness, nutrition, medical safe-care, and personal safety. If you take good care of your body, it will reward you with years of good service. Physical wellness needs to be enhanced because it can greatly affect or influence other wellness aspects. As stated by Aristotle, a person who has sound body also has a sound