2020 Teachers’ New Year’s Resolutions: 3. Educate yourself
It’s a new year and as is our custom here in the USA, we make resolutions which, while often broken, can be redefined as goals toward which we should strive.
NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION #3
- Educate yourself.
BUT I DON’T HAVE ENOUGH TIME
Teachers are overworked and overstressed. Often teachers go home after a difficult day at school and spend an hour or two on planning, assessing student work, or sifting through piles of mostly meaningless paperwork.
A few hours later, after a rushed meal, minimal time with family, and a night of not-enough-sleep, it starts over again.
Weekends are a bit better…time to catch up on everything.
It’s no surprise, then, that teachers feel like they don’t have time to find out what’s happening in the politics of public education. They only know that it seems like each year there are more and more restrictions on what and how they can teach, more tests for their students, fewer resources, and larger classes.
Meanwhile, the forces of DPE (Destroy Public Education) continue to move forward increasing funding for charter schools and unaccountable voucher schools by diverting public money from public schools.
THE ARGUMENT FOR EDUCATING YOURSELF
Make the time.
I know…I’m retired. I don’t have to get up and face a classroom of kids every day. It’s easy for me to say, “Make the time.” I get it. CONTINUE READING: 2020 Teachers’ New Year’s Resolutions: 3. Educate yourself | Live Long and Prosper
