Have you ever thought about all the teaching experience we have between us? Lots of experienced teachers read this blog — that’s a bunch of knowledge about education all in one spot. Now, I think this graphic does a nice job explaining three things needed to survive as a teacher, but I’m sure you have…
teacher burnout
What’s Your Number?
When I was teaching, I felt various levels of burnout depending on the school at which I happened to be working. My years in the classroom involved two great experiences—a Catholic school and a rural school—sandwiching my time at a rough inner city school. If I had to give my feeling of burnout a rating,…
Burnout!
Classroom management is one of the main reasons for job burnout and attrition in first-year teachers. I remember that first year of teaching; as classroom management goes, it wasn’t pretty. There was pulling of hair and gnashing of teeth and wails of frustration—and that was me in the car on the way home from work…