Dont Quit: 5 Strategies for Recovering After Your Worst Day Teaching | Edutopia

By Johanna Rauhala

Ice crystallized on the windshield, then a tire burst on the way to school, making you late. By the time you arrived, the computer (with the video clip and presentation cued up) froze. Minutes later, Jason pulled the fire alarm while you tried to catch up on parent emails. During lunch duty, an honor student was punched in the nose. Your nose is stuffy while you explain to the principal right before an IEP meeting why your plans havent been submitted yet. The day trudges along. . . At last, the final bell rings, and in your first quiet moment of the day, thoughts of leaving the teaching profession suddenly seem, well, right.

Its that moment when you want to say, “I quit!”

We dont talk about those feelings because were supposed to be like those heroic teacher-as-savior figures that permeate popular narratives about our work. And yet. . .

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