The following metacognitive prompts can help teachers reflect on the full picture of being an educator, including their well-being.
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a theoretical framework comprising a tiered model of human needs often depicted as a pyramid.
If you would’ve told me that rather than quitting teaching, I should ‘try counseling,’ I probably would not have responded favorably.
Many teachers don’t have the luxury of deciding what’s sustainable for them. In these cases, they somehow ‘survive’ or they quit.
Instead of passing out learning style inventories & grouping students accordingly, teachers should aim to facilitate multimodal learning.
We can’t control everything and apologizing for things out of our control can set unrealistic expectations of teachers.
The push is to do more, do it faster, improve the student’s grades and, more importantly, their standardized test scores.
What you consider to the best state to live in and work as a teacher depend on what you value as a…