We need Breakthroughs NOT Breakdowns in Teaching.
We need Breakthroughs NOT Breakdowns in Teaching.
— Read on mrshumanities.com/2019/01/05/we-need-breakthroughs-not-breakdowns-in-teaching/
My Second ParkRun of 2019 ✅
I was feeling upbeat about continuing with my “New Year New Me!” mindset. I may not of managed to run the whole 5K but the support I received for getting out there and giving it a go was very heart warming. Not only have I returned to exercising but I’m also getting out of the house and speaking to people (something I have not wanted to do for quite sometime). https://continueteachingornot.wordpress.com/2019/01/02/new-year-new-me/
Back at home whilst drinking my coffee and flitting between social media sites I came across this article and my heart sank. This teacher stated ‘I wanted to crash my car to avoid teaching’. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-46738445/a-teacher-s-story-eat-sleep-teach-repeat
What is happening to the teaching profession? It clearly isn’t just new teachers, like me, who are struggling, it’s happening to experienced teachers too.
OneNote as a Planning Tool
I have set my 2019 planner up using OneNote with the help of this blog. Getting organised helps me feel like I’m working towards a healthier work life balance and improving my wellbeing.
I have been speaking to a number of teachers at school about the use of OneNote and I have been meaning to write about how OneNote has merged into my day-to-day teaching. I thought about the main ways in which I use it:
- For day-to-day planning (effectively replacing my paper planner)
- In lessons as a teaching tool (almost a replacement for ActivInspire)
- For storing and marking work through the Content Library and Class OneNote functions
- For creating long-term plans, unit plans and collating resources for future units of work
- For continued professional development
I thought I would compile a quick series of posts on each one of these uses.
OneNote as my Planner
I started using OneNote personally before I started trying to integrate it into my teaching. I was already using a table format in Word to plan my maths lessons and started to see others at school using OneNote…
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Are you a teacher who is also considering leaving the profession?
New Year New Me!
Well it’s been just over two weeks since I was in the classroom. It would appear a change really is as good as a rest as despite the challenges Christmas can bring, I actually feel very rested. My mood feels lifted, I feel like I have both the time and motivation to exercise and consider what I am eating and drinking. I never thought I would consider giving up teaching after less than five years particularly as I gave up so much to enter the profession in the first place.
Do any other teachers feel the same way?