EP13 How to be unshakeable in your enthusiasm for teaching

Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers

Angela Watson

Education, Courses

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 15 March 2015

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Passion cannot be faked. Students can tell when we’re just going through the motions. But how can you summon the energy to teach with passion when there are so many distractions from what really matters? And if you barely have time for taking care of yourself, how can you have anything left to give your students?

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 13 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host
0:05.8	Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and
0:11.5	hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead.
0:15.0	Today I'm going to share some thoughts on becoming unshakable in your enthusiasm for teaching.
0:21.0	Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript, links to recommended resources, and to share your thoughts on the show.
0:30.0	You can also drop by iTunes and leave a comment on the show there to let me know you were listening.
0:35.0	A big thanks to this episode's sponsor, Snap Learning.
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0:51.8	So today's episode, I'm going to talk about how to become unshakable in your
0:56.3	enthusiasm for teaching. Here's what I mean by that. I think we've all
1:02.1	started the school day determined to have one of those great days that we just dreamed about before we got our first teaching job
1:09.0	where it's just going to be like dead poet society right and all your kids are going to
1:13.0	fall in love with learning. You sit down at your desk and a message goes over the
1:18.4	intercom that your colleague is absent and there's no sub so they're going to split her class and you have
1:24.2	eight extra students today. And before you can try to make extra photocopies, the
1:29.1	phone rings and it's a parent complaining about the amount of homework you gave the night before.
1:34.0	By the time you get off the phone you realize it's 8 o'clock and you forgot to send down your progress reports to the principal.
1:40.0	At that moment, your students all rush in the door, they're trying to get your attention all at once
1:45.2	They're taddling on each other they're telling you that two other students are fighting out in the hallway and it's now five minutes into your day and you've already completely lost your
1:54.2	focus, motivation, and energy. This is how it feels sometimes, right? You start to
2:01.2	wonder when do I actually get to teach? It's all testing and paperwork and
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