S5EP02 From burnout to Teacher of the Year: Pam's story of loving her job again
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
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🗓️ 12 February 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
I got an email a few months ago from a woman named Pam Gresser. She wrote, "I'm starting my 20th year teaching and 2 years ago, I didn't know how much longer I could go on. I read your book 'Unshakeable: 20 Ways to Enjoy Teaching Every Day…No Matter What' and it truly changed my whole attitude!"
Obviously Pam's email made a big impact on me as the author of the book, but I also wanted to learn more about what, specifically, she did to create change in her life.
How exactly does a teacher go from being burned out and feeling like she wanted to quit teaching to being recognized as teacher of the year?
Listen in as I talk with Pam Gresser about how she became unshakeable in her enthusiasm for teaching, and how you can, too.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Season 5, episode 2 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Angela Watson and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth |
| 0:12.4 | into the minds and hearts of educators and get you energized for |
| 0:15.8 | the week ahead. |
| 0:16.8 | Today I'm going to be talking with a teacher named Pan Gresser who has offered to share |
| 0:21.4 | her story of how she went from feeling overwhelmed and |
| 0:24.3 | exhausted to really loving her job again. You can visit truth for teachers |
| 0:29.2 | com to get the transcript links to recommended resources and to share your thoughts on the show. |
| 0:35.6 | This episode is sponsored by the Teacher Toolkit.com, a free website with over 60 teaching tools |
| 0:41.8 | designed to help make your instruction engaging and meaningful. |
| 0:45.5 | For each strategy you'll find step-by-step instructions, editable templates, and even video footage |
| 0:51.1 | from real classrooms to show you the strategy in action. |
| 0:54.8 | To check out these free tools and the growing collection of affordable online courses, |
| 0:58.9 | visit the Teacher Toolkit.com. |
| 1:02.2 | So I got an email a couple months ago from a woman named Pam and she |
| 1:05.7 | wrote I'm starting my 20th year of teaching and two years ago I didn't know how much |
| 1:11.6 | longer I could go on. I read your book Unshakable, 20 ways to enjoy |
| 1:16.3 | teaching every day no matter what, and it truly changed my whole attitude. She apparently started a school book study on it and she's |
| 1:25.8 | going to be using unshakable for a class where educators can get credits toward |
| 1:29.9 | their license or professional development hours for their district. |
| 1:34.0 | She wrote, our school has started so positive this year and I honestly don't remember when it's |
| 1:38.9 | felt like this and I truly believe it's because of your book unshakable. |
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