EP159 No, you don't have to consume yourself to light the way for others
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 March 2019
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
Let's debunk 10 of the most annoying — and dangerous — teacher platitudes. In this episode, I'll share my thoughts, along with the opinions of other educators from a great discussion on my Facebook page.
If there's a common saying in education that's always sort of bugged you, but was so popular you felt like you must be the ONLY one concerned, this is going to be super validating and empowering!
Listen in as we question these platitudes and consider some more accurate truths that allow you to define the role of a teacher for yourself.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 159 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, |
| 0:09.0 | encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for the week ahead. |
| 0:15.0 | Today I'm going to debunk some dangerous teacher platitudes and I'll have a little help from some educators from my Facebook page. |
| 0:23.0 | Visit truth for teachers.com to get the transcript or to share your thoughts in the comments. |
| 0:28.0 | And if you enjoy this episode, I'd love for you to leave a review on iTunes or in your podcast player app. |
| 0:33.7 | Also a big thanks to advancement courses for sponsoring today's show. |
| 0:39.0 | You can earn graduate credits or CEUs through over 200 online PD courses. |
| 0:44.0 | Everything's online and totally self-paced. |
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| 0:52.0 | To learn more, just visit advancement courses.com slash |
| 0:56.6 | truth. So we're going to open up this episode here with a little bit of drama. |
| 1:02.3 | Everybody likes a little bit of drama every now and then, right? |
| 1:07.0 | I encountered a post on social media a while back from an education leader and this is what it said, |
| 1:14.0 | good teachers don't look forward to weekends. |
| 1:17.8 | Our work is too important to imply |
| 1:19.8 | that we'd ever be happier doing something else. And I'm telling you an absolute firestorm |
| 1:26.6 | erupted over that post with all kinds of teachers pushing back on this idea that |
| 1:31.0 | if they really loved their work and if they really appreciated its importance, |
| 1:35.3 | they wouldn't look forward to the time off. |
| 1:38.7 | Some people resented the implications of a man telling a workforce that is 77% women that they shouldn't imply that they'd be |
| 1:46.0 | happier doing something other than nurturing children every day of the week, as if that's somehow |
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