Another one that inspired me today. As a teacher you are judged constantly by everyone, and I mean everyone. It is hard to work under the microscope, but I do it because I care and am there to help kids.
Today was a bad day. Tomorrow I am going to work hard and make it a good one. That is what sets apart a good teacher from a bad one, no matter what your score on your TPEP may be.
I came across this on pinterest today and definitely needed the reminder. It is that time of year when you are tired, you haven't seen the sun in three weeks, and the kids in class are definitely feeling all of this 10x as much as you are.
When I was a teenager I used to read about a lot of different philosophies. One of them said to remember that the only thing you can control is your own behavior. I need to go into work tomorrow and choose to be in charge of that and let the rest of it go.
Remember, be calm and be good at what you do. The rest will come into place on it's own.
Flexible Thinking
Recently I went to a Social Thinking conference. I loved it. It gave me so many tools on how to talk to parents about social skills goals and how to reach kids.
To start making that learning accessible to my students I made flexible thinking booklets for them, reminding them of the strategies that we are learning how to use in my social groups.
They have been a hit with my students and with the teachers that I work with who also need assistance at times in talking to their class about flexible thinking.
Strategies include:
Taking a break
Reminding yourself that you can do it
Ask a question
Ask for help
Think about the group plan
Stop and think
Tell yourself that this is a small problem
I hope that they are as helpful to you as they have been to me.
