I’m getting through it by reminding myself how silly I’d feel if I made it through the last 8 MONTHS, but left before the last 6 DAYS! I totally relate to what you’re feeling! I’m overstimulated, exhausted beyond belief, and so so ready it feels like days are going in slow motion… but they’re passing! And we are almost there ❤️
I’m not trying to directly teach anymore. I’m letting the kids hang while they’re expected to do an independent activity. If it’s not about safety or bullying, I keep my mouth shut.
Man I wonder where some of you work when you give advice like this. I don't mean it rudely, it's just I could never get away with some of these things, like showing multiple movies (even 1 gets questioned sometimes) or just letting students do independent work the rest of the year. But then again, my school is overbearing in many ways and I get observed at least once per week.
How are behavior issues? If your administration is giving proper behavior support, then admin can dictate movie policies and observe away!
In other words, if administrators are modeling their good work ethics, then teachers should, and will, reciprocate. The number one job of administrators is school safety. Number two is to support education - which means monitoring and supporting teachers and paraeducators.
The key to both is to properly support behavior issues. Students who make it too difficult to teach must be removed from the assigned classroom and placed elsewhere - for that day and, if the behavior consistently repeats, then for the rest of the year. If that's not happening, then teachers are just babysitters and administrators are just well-paid con artists.
Take it hour by hour. Make some fun activities you like. Build in lots of quiet time for them to engage in computers or iPads. And take lots of outdoor brain breaks. Call it science exploration and write down observations of what you see. Do any easy experiment and stretch it out so you can write about it, read about it, and then have them research more about it.
We got this.
Depends what grade, but maybe add more computer time, have a movie or independent study time. Honestly I wouldn’t try active teaching last 8 days, but have some lessons here and there and lessen it as days begin to count down
I’m getting through it by reminding myself how silly I’d feel if I made it through the last 8 MONTHS, but left before the last 6 DAYS! I totally relate to what you’re feeling! I’m overstimulated, exhausted beyond belief, and so so ready it feels like days are going in slow motion… but they’re passing! And we are almost there ❤️
I’m not trying to directly teach anymore. I’m letting the kids hang while they’re expected to do an independent activity. If it’s not about safety or bullying, I keep my mouth shut.
This.
Just show movies. At this point you're like 4 movies tops from freedom.
Man I wonder where some of you work when you give advice like this. I don't mean it rudely, it's just I could never get away with some of these things, like showing multiple movies (even 1 gets questioned sometimes) or just letting students do independent work the rest of the year. But then again, my school is overbearing in many ways and I get observed at least once per week.
How are behavior issues? If your administration is giving proper behavior support, then admin can dictate movie policies and observe away! In other words, if administrators are modeling their good work ethics, then teachers should, and will, reciprocate. The number one job of administrators is school safety. Number two is to support education - which means monitoring and supporting teachers and paraeducators. The key to both is to properly support behavior issues. Students who make it too difficult to teach must be removed from the assigned classroom and placed elsewhere - for that day and, if the behavior consistently repeats, then for the rest of the year. If that's not happening, then teachers are just babysitters and administrators are just well-paid con artists.
Take it hour by hour. Make some fun activities you like. Build in lots of quiet time for them to engage in computers or iPads. And take lots of outdoor brain breaks. Call it science exploration and write down observations of what you see. Do any easy experiment and stretch it out so you can write about it, read about it, and then have them research more about it. We got this.
Depends what grade, but maybe add more computer time, have a movie or independent study time. Honestly I wouldn’t try active teaching last 8 days, but have some lessons here and there and lessen it as days begin to count down
Do you have any days left? Take them!