I find that as this quarter comes to a close that I am more stressed out than ever. Can a teacher really burn out in Oct. when school started in Aug.? I find that I am so overwhelmed by all my obligations that I sometimes just want to quit. If I feel like this already, I wonder what students feel like. So many of them have such heavy academic loads and then they add sports participation, work, clubs, family, religion, and all the other life events. When do they sleep?
What will happen as the year progresses? Will things get worse? Will both my students and I explode? quit? give up? Where will we all get the strength or fortitude to plow through all the "stuff" in our lives and survive yet another school year?
I am thinking a vacation is in order- a long one to Hawaii or a cruise to sunny beaches and hot climates.
Any other options to surviving the school year?
4 comments:
Venting, it seem like every one vents. You just have to breath in and out sometimes. And take some time and dream of a place you love.
Take one day at a time; living day by day has been my strategy to endure the school year and so far has been a great perspective. I do what I can during the day, trying not to stress myself out with everything-stay positive. If you work yourself up about the jobs, you’re never going to get them done because you’re actually just overwhelming yourself. I’ve found as my junior year approached me in a super-fast fashion that I needed to learn better time management and just stay calm and not stress out. I think if the teacher really shows they are stressed out, it will have the same affect on the students; believe it or not, students react to the teacher and do as they do ironically enough. All I can say is live life day by day and roll with the punches, of course some days it will be almost virtually impossible to do, but it keeps you sane. I think if the students are taking your class Mrs. Hansen (talking about Honors), that they already have a passion to do what they need to do and will do it no matter the mood of the teacher.
Yea. Try "lazy days" where you do nothing the entire day but to do work so you can get stuff done. It'll help out both you and the students relax and get everything done.
Mrs. Hansen you have helped a lot with your less strict policy thing in psych. That shows us that we have to get it done but when everything is piled up at once you give us a little more time. As for teachers, it may be because its quarter time, but maybe the school could invest in a punching bag and teachers can take turns haha but in all reality maybe dling something that relaxes you like schedualing a couple more messages or even just take a day off and plan for it in advance so its like you were never gone
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