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Giving Thanks
Today is Thanksgiving Day here in Canada, so it’s time to give thanks for all my good fortune. Here are five of my job-related blessings. 1. A salary. Last week, I wrote a post about money anxiety. However, I took pains to point out that money anxiety is relative. Every two weeks, a paycheck shows Continue reading
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How I Saved My Teaching Career: Step 5: Get More Training
This is the sixth post in a series on how to overcome burnout and love teaching again. See the end of this post for previous entries. One advantage of being a teacher is that it’s easy to keep learning, and learning, and learning. I got my education degree years ago, specializing in Teaching English Continue reading
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How I Saved My Teaching Career: Step 3: Find Your Community
This is the fourth post in a series on how to overcome burnout and love teaching again. See the end of this post for previous entries. Teaching can be lonely. We spend a lot of time with our students, but our relationships with them can feel adversarial and/or distant. Even our good relationships with Continue reading
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How I Saved My Teaching Career: Step 2: Take Time Off
One of my favourite quotes about burnout is from Bertrand Russell’s essay “Education and Discipline”: … it is utterly impossible for over-worked teachers to preserve an instinctive liking for children; they are bound to come to feel towards them as the proverbial confectioner’s apprentice does towards macaroons. I do not think that education ought to Continue reading
About Me
My job is to teach people to read and write; aside from that, I like to learn things.
Classroom as Microcosm 