Another School Year Ends: Time for Teachers to Decompress and Use Those Organizational Skills in the World of Politics
Did you hear that “whoosh” sound that swept across the city only a few hours ago? A weather anomaly? No, the whoosh was 70,000 teachers breathing out – the end of another school year.
Teaching is a complex and enervating task.
For many of us we are the only stable adult in a child’s life. Households can be chaotic, children can have a variety of caregivers, ask teachers of 3, 4 and 5 years old, they hear the stories and they try and respond.
Each teacher is the author, actor, director and critic of a play with a run of one day. One day our play is a hit, the next day a flop. No matter the quality of the script, the lesson plan, there are no guarantees of success. The teaching process might check all the boxes, the object of the process; the children change from day to day.
When the light bulb goes off we give an internal fist bump, when s/he looks at us blankly we snarl: what did we miss, what am I not doing?
With each year, hopefully, we get better, our toolkit get deeper, we become more CONTINUE READING: Another School Year Ends: Time for Teachers to Decompress and Use Those Organizational Skills in the World of Politics | Ed In The Apple