Beginning teachers often focus so intensely on day-to-day struggles that they cannot recognize the small successes that occur over time.
I still struggle with celebrating success at times, I still automatically go to what I could've done or said better, how I could improve or what I can change. I really try to remind myself to think about what went well first before reflecting on what I can improve.
alidate the teacher’s feelings
THIS! Sometimes we just want to know that we are not alone and we just want someone to see how we feel, having someone to just listen to how you feel and help validate those feelings can make such a huge impact.
teacher who requires emotional support needs coping rae gies for responding to these challenges in a healthy way and reassurance to promote self-confidence.
I agree that coping strategies are something that all of us need and benefit from. Not only did I struggle as a first year teacher emotionally but I think that all of us hit some point in our school year where we have that exhaustion and it can be really hard to cope with those feelings if we don't know how or have the strategies to.
6. Listen actively. There are two types of listeners: those who seek to understand, and those who seek to be understood.
Active listening is something that I really try to teach my students about and I myself am still working on as an adult; active listening is a really important skill to have but also takes time to develop
Open the reigns and let the human need for autonomy and relevance flourish
I still feel like I struggle with this and my students sometimes. it can be a little nerve wracking to set them free in a lesson or a project and let go of that control, but at the same time that is when the most rewarding and important learning happens.
1. Focus on relationships.
Relationships are one of the biggest components of teaching. Our whole job is based upon building meaningful relationships with students before we get into the content of teaching. Relationships are so important.
chools do little to lessen the gap between rich students and poor students,
I want to pushback on this comment as I have seen many things my school does to help students and their families that are at an economic disadvantage and have been historically marginalized. Working in a low income school has shown me how schools can make a HUGE impact on students to try to lessen the gap as much as possible
ect means that the inequali- ties imposed on children by their home, neighborhood, and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront life at the end of school. (p. 325
Students identities play a huge role in their education. There are a lot of outstanding factors that we as teachers cannot control, but they have a huge impact on a students education.
K through 12 education might argue that the only relevant part is “it was the worst of times.”
I think that especially right now with all of the uncertainties happening in our political climate this is really resonating with me; so much is out of my control; and while for some of us we have this hope it will get better; for others it is a very fearful time to be an educator. Teaching is so political and it is so hard to gloss over the current things that are happening in the communities that we teach in.