EP134 Five things I'm embarrassed to tell you
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2018
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, I decided to put myself out there and tell Truth for Teachers listeners some facts that are embarrassing for me to admit.
I've heard podcasters in other niches do this episode format, and I felt like I knew them much better afterward. I also related to a lot of what they shared — it made me feel less alone to hear someone else admit the things that a lot of people think or feel, even if we're not always talking about it.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 134 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host |
| 0:06.6 | Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the |
| 0:11.9 | minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:16.0 | Today I'm going to share five things that I'm embarrassed to tell you. |
| 0:20.1 | Visit truth for teachers.com to ask a question or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
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| 0:56.3 | go to really good stuff.com and you'll see their resources there. So today's |
| 1:01.5 | episode is going to be a little bit different. This is a format that I've heard |
| 1:05.3 | podcasters and other niches use before and it's really interesting for me to listen to as a podcast |
| 1:11.7 | listener so I figured it would be really good for me to share this with you all even though |
| 1:17.4 | I'm sort of cringing thinking about putting this out into the world and admitting the things that I'm about to admit. |
| 1:26.7 | But here we go. Five things I'm embarrassed to tell you. The first thing that I am embarrassed to tell you is that working with kids was not my favorite part of teaching. |
| 1:34.0 | So a lot of people will say, you know, teaching is all about the kids, |
| 1:38.2 | you know, connecting with kids, you know, spending time with kids, |
| 1:41.0 | enjoying your kids, and I know that that's the case for a lot of |
| 1:46.0 | teachers but for me that wasn't the best part for me the best part was solving problems and designing learning experiences |
| 1:56.0 | and creating systems that help the classroom run smoothly and made sure that |
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