095. The Truth About Teacher Burnout

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

4.8 • 667 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got to share some tough love and drop a whole lot of truth in this episode. Over the last couple of episodes we’ve been diving deep into understanding teacher burnout. Our goal is to determine the causes and learn strategies for helping to avoid burnout. In this episode we need to share what so many might need to hear and that is… “Self care is NOT the solution for teacher burnout” We see so many posts, discussions, and even receive PD all about self care. This idea that all we need is to take care of ourselves or take time for yourself will not solve the problems that are causing you to feel burnout. To really feel a difference, we have to get at the root of the problem. So we share 5 categories of stressors that may be causing you to feel exhausted and burnout. In this episode we share: Organization can lead to you feeling frazzled and lost when trying to clear your head space for the day. A lack of work-life separation is not sustainable and can lead to an overwhelming feeling of exhaustion. Developing unrealistic expectations can lead to self-doubt and disappointment. Identifying our emotions can help us in understanding how we react to situations. While we may not be in control of everything around us, we can still speak out and have our voices be heard. Be sure to check out the last two episodes on Teacher Burnout: 093. Our Teacher Burnout Journeys 094. The Teacher Burnout Sliding Scale SUBMIT YOUR TIME SUCKING HURDLE! We want to know what is sucking up all of your time either as a teacher or just a person. Head over to our website and submit your TSH so that you can have a chance to be featured on the podcast! SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, I want to encourage you to do that today. I don’t want you to miss an episode. Click here to subscribe to iTunes! Now if you’re feeling extra loving, We would be really grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help other people find our podcast and they’re also fun for us to go in and read. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite part of the podcast is. Thank you!

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0:00.0	Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your host, Bridget Spackman and Michelle Emerson,
0:05.0	and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,
0:10.2	and productivity as a teacher. Yes, it is another episode on teacher burnout, but obviously
0:16.1	there is a reason we are doing so many episodes on it. It's very much real and it's affecting a lot of
0:23.4	teachers out there. So in today's episode, we're going to focus on the truth about teacher burnout
0:28.4	because we hate to tell you, but you've been lied to. Gasp. So first, let's hear a TSAH or time-sucking hurdle from Michelle Holman.
0:41.0	I have a very hard time turning off my teacher brain. So even after I've completed my lesson
0:48.2	plan for the day, I replay it over and over in my mind. What often happens is that I then come up with a different way to teach
0:56.6	it, which in my mind seems better, so then I'm back at the beginning, reworking the lesson,
1:02.1	and then having to update or completely retype the whole lesson. Sometimes I can control the urge
1:08.6	to change the lesson and leave a note in my plan for how I would teach the lesson the next time.
1:14.0	But the perfectionist in me wants the kids to have the best idea the very next day.
1:19.7	Not the next year.
1:21.0	This becomes a huge time suck for me.
1:24.3	Michelle, girl, not the Michelle that's like on the podcast with me, but Michelle Holman, girl, I am so much like you.
1:32.8	I want to have the very best lesson in it and I'm always reflecting on ways to be able to make things better.
1:38.6	But to help my brain, instead of reworking every single lesson, here are going to be some tips that maybe you can follow.
1:45.2	So one, start with one area to focus on each year. If you're reworking multiple lessons from
1:51.6	one day, then you're going to start to feel very overwhelmed. So focusing on one area will really
1:57.3	help you to narrow in on where you can improve. Another idea is to create a flow for your
2:03.2	lessons. This truly saved me so much time and energy. This means that you're going to develop a way
2:11.0	to be able to hook your learners, to have a core lesson, and maybe even to reflect or extend the lesson afterwards.
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