154. Stop Feeling Guilty For Not Working: The Strategies You NEED To Know

Teaching to the TOP

Teaching on the Double

Parenting, Education, Self-improvement, Kids & Family

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Do you feel guilty when you need to take a day off? Teacher guilt is REAL! Whether you know you’re going to be out or you have a last minute emergency, there are steps you can take to make your return to work seamless and less stressful. Today, we are talking about three strategies you can use to rid yourself of the guilt once a for all. We’re showing you how to deal with planned and unplanned absences so you can pick up right where you left off without the guilt, and in some cases come back even stronger! Everyone needs a break once in a while! In this episode we share: How to turn off those little voices in your head telling you that you should be at school or you should be working 3 strategies you can use to ensure all types of absences run smoothly How to have a response ready to anyone that might object to your days off 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 hosts, Michelle Emerson. And Bridget Spackman, and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization, and productivity as a teacher.
0:12.9	And speaking of teachers, every teacher has experienced what we like to call teacher guilt. You have to take a day off school and you end up feeling really
0:23.2	guilty about it or you take a well-deserved vacation and the entire time you just feel bad that
0:29.2	you're not working and you're missing out. So in this episode, we're going to share three strategies
0:34.6	that can help you overcome these feelings of guilt. But first, let's hear
0:39.5	a TSAH from Gwendolyn. I love your name, by the way, Gwendolyn. It's beautiful. Okay, this is what her
0:47.2	TSA says. Creating sub plans, which the sub and students do not follow. Subs will often allow students to play games either online or
0:57.1	present their own. So student learning falls behind when I'm unable to be in class due to illness or
1:03.4	meetings. So the reason we picked this one for this episode is because honestly our best advice is not your problem. I mean,
1:13.9	ultimately, you can create the most detailed, beautiful, ornate subplans, but there will still
1:20.6	sometimes be substitutes that choose not to follow them because it's easier to let the students
1:25.6	do things like play games online or
1:27.5	etc, et cetera, and it's not your problem. You can't worry about it or feel bad about it because
1:33.6	you're not there. You're not in control. You did what you were supposed to do. You have to just let
1:39.4	it go. And I know it is frustrating when you feel like students are falling behind. And at the end of the day,
1:45.6	though, it just isn't going to matter. And it's not something that's worth your time or energy
1:51.1	worrying about because there's only so much you can do. Bridgett. Gwendolyn, I will say,
1:58.1	I definitely agree with Michelle. And I will also say that in the world right now, when we do not have subs, because I've had multiple situations, I mean, it's more often that we do not have a sub than when we do have a sub.
2:12.8	Like, we are shooketh to our core when we actually have subs in our classrooms.
2:17.4	So I honestly never put down
2:21.3	normal learning for a sub day. It's just, there's no way that I can get it done because I don't
2:27.7	know if I'm going to have a sub inside of that classroom and it just would make no sense for me to
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