Dear Teacher,
As you reflect and start thinking about next year, what is it that you need to change and do differently?
Classroom management?
Teaching/Learning paradigms?
Use more technology?
Use less technology?
Brain-based strategies?
What is the area of your teaching that you feel like you get the same results every year?
It is easy to get beat up by these things. Don’t beat yourself up.
In the coming weeks, choose one thing to work on…and then work on it. Come up with ideas. Make a plan. Find a way to be, act, and react differently. Just one.
Oh, and I don’t mean pick one thing like “classroom management.” We all know that is not one thing. That is about a million things. Pick one aspect of the area you need to work on most. For instance, if classroom management is the area you have to work on, pick something like how you react to students blurting out and/or disrupting class. One thing.
When you work on one thing at a time, you take baby steps towards the goal of ending Einstein’s definition of insanity in your teaching life and classroom.
Baby steps.
One at a time.
Little movements away from insanity.
Summer is a great time to think and work on your baby steps…so get stepping, Teacher!
You are awesome! I hope that you are enjoying your summer. Keep recharging your batteries, but don’t forget to think about the little things you can try to change. Keep stepping and keep on teaching, Teacher!
Love, Teacher
Dear Teacher/Love Teacher 