Refocus: Sometimes we need to restart
Refocus: Sometimes we need to restart
Teaching is a wonderful, rewarding, exciting, challenging, and energizing profession.
Teachers have the unique privilege to share learning, engender confidence, and promote creativity and success. As such, teachers are always “onâ€. Teachers are energized, excited, motivating, encouraging, empathetic, present, and available 24/7.
However, teachers are also people, and people with the type of expectations placed on teachers, must recharge, re-energize, restart, refocus.
No matter how dedicated a teacher might be, a day might come when that teacher feels frustrated, defeated, or even worse, apathetic.
However, it is important to realize that these feeling are normal and a natural result of offering constant and endless positive motivation and encouragement to others. Once we as teachers realize that it is OK to also be human, we learn that our feelings are normal. Then, we can take the next step – the step of refocus.
For me, the Holidays are my time of refocus. I remind myself of how wonderful people are, the world is, and my ability to offer hope and success to those I share my instruction with.
Cindy,
Go for it! With passion for your field and enthusiasm for teaching your content you are going to have engaged students.
Gary
Gary Meers, Ed.D.
I feel encourged after ready this post, I feel that we all need to refocus and get excited and motivated on teaching again
Ami,
I like our outlook on life. Enjoying the world and people around you is so important to keeping your own spirits high. I have adopted as my life saying "Aspire to Inspire Before You Expire". It helps to keep me focused on what is important in life.
Gary
