I highly recommend you find yourself a clingy (healthy) lovey dovey partner who’s super excited about you. Life is too short to spend it with someone who act like showing love is a chore.
We hire teachers for their strengths, yet we fixate on managing their perceived weaknesses. Imagine the impact if we not only identified and celebrated strengths but also created a culture actively nurturing and amplifying them!
A plea. If you’re going to write a curriculum for children aged under 5, please teach children under 5. Not for a lesson or a day, but for a substantial period of time. Then try out your curriculum with the children you teach. I’m getting a bit fed up of people producing
Teachers who choose to stay in the classroom over moving to administration are leaders too! Honor their choice, dedication, & professionalism. Effective leaders actually embrace this choice and leverage their talents and expertise to benefit the whole school.
Teacher: I feel so exhausted all the time.
Central Office: Have you tried yoga or running or meditation.
Let’s stop telling teachers to do yoga and meditate (UNLESS that’s what they want and choose to do).
Instead, let’s advocate for making teaching a sustainable career!
@GillianKeegan Schools should operate under local authorities as they did under Labour. You’ve privatised schools by failing their Ofsted, forcing them to become academies run by “charities” with questionable sources of income and undue sway and no requirement to follow the national curriculum.
This year more teachers will likely leave teaching than ever before, and not because they no longer care about their students or don’t love teaching, but because society doesn’t value, pay, resource or care about them.
Highest taxes for 50 years yet our NHS, public services and schools are collapsing because of lack of funding.
Where is our tax money going?
What is the Tory government doing with it?
I know there’s been talk of this country running out of teachers for years, but I genuinely think that ‘talk’ will soon become a reality. Not a shortage or cutting corners - literally no one to stand in classrooms in front of classes. Wonder what happens then? It’ll be too late.