The calendar doesn’t lie: you’re not going to finish the book before finals. Whether things took longer than you expected, your school administrators threw unanticipated schedule changes your way, or you just miscounted (it’s happened to us all), you’re stuck wondering what to do.
Sometimes, and we can be VERY guilty of this ourselves, we get so involved in what’s going on in our classrooms, we forget that part of our teacher life exists in the professional world, and we need to focus on building productive, professional relationships with our colleagues.
“But at least you get summers off!” How many of us haven’t heard this in response to our frustrations about…
So many students. So many books. Only one you. If you’re like us, you want to encourage your students to…
One part of a new school year that always seems to sneak up on us is Back to School Night. We forget (perhaps intentionally) that it’s coming, and then we’re scrambling to pull something together and enduring awkward presentations to the handful of parents who trickle through our doors each “period.”
The fact of the matter is we don’t get enough rest during the school year. We drag ourselves to summer utterly exhausted and spent, with nothing left to give, and if we don’t take time to rest, recharge, and become ourselves again, we’ll start the new school year at less than full capacity.