EP104 When experienced teachers are suddenly deemed ineffective: How to adapt or exit gracefully
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 3 September 2017
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
I receive emails on almost a daily basis from veteran teachers who are completely overwhelmed at how the job they signed up for 20, 30, or 40 years ago is nothing like the job they are being required to do today. I want to amplify the voices of teachers who are experiencing this, let them know they're not alone, and talk about what can be done.
My hope is that this is episode will be useful to you even if you're NOT facing this situation yourself, because every teacher works with at least one colleague who is in a similar place. You might actually be feeling frustrated with these teachers, believing that they are not pulling their weight and aren't changing with the times. So I hope this episode will strengthen the relationships between you and your colleagues as well.
If you ARE that teacher--someone who changed children's lives year after year and are suddenly finding the expectations on you to be exhausting and impossible to meet, I want you to know these 9 things shared in today's episode.
To share this with other teachers (or get a printable PDF), go to:
http://thecornerstoneforteachers.com/truth-for-teachers-podcast/ineffective/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 104 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:05.4 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and |
| 0:11.2 | hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to talk about situations in which an experienced teacher is suddenly deemed ineffective. |
| 0:20.0 | And we'll talk about how to adapt or exit gracefully. |
| 0:25.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get a printable PDF version of the transcript for this |
| 0:29.7 | episode or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
| 0:34.0 | So I want to talk this week about the emails that I get on an almost daily basis |
| 0:39.0 | from veteran teachers who are completely overwhelmed |
| 0:42.0 | at how the job that they signed up for 20, 30, even 40 years ago |
| 0:46.8 | is nothing like the job that they're required to do today. |
| 0:51.3 | These are teachers who entered the field because they love kids and they love teaching. |
| 0:55.9 | They've done what they believed was an outstanding job for a decade or more before suddenly |
| 1:00.6 | finding the criteria for competency shifting and the bar raising |
| 1:05.6 | and a whole host of new skill sets needed from teaching with technology to dealing with students |
| 1:10.9 | whose brains have been rewired by constant media stimulation. |
| 1:16.0 | After years of successfully teaching kids to read and write and add and subtract, these teachers |
| 1:21.0 | are suddenly being told they're ineffective and because this is |
| 1:25.0 | their life's work that proclamation hits them like a slap in the face. |
| 1:29.0 | It affects them to the core of their being. |
| 1:32.0 | I want to amplify the voices of teachers who are |
| 1:35.3 | experiencing this right now and let you all know you are not alone and you're not |
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