The most important skill your child will ever learn is empathy Trust me, no one is harder on a student for that failed science test than the student themselves. But sometimes, it’s okay to give your kids a break. Of course children need discipline – I would never argue otherwise. Sometimes kids don’t need tough love, they just need love Several nights a week, I am in the school building for 12 or more hours at a time before falling into bed, just to get up and do it all over again the next day. I stay late to chaperone prom or cheer on my students at volleyball games. I stay up late grading papers or worrying about students who are not succeeding in class. I am exhausted but for the sake of your child, I try not to show it I promise we tactfully try to change the subject, but teachers are often involuntary recipients of all sorts of personal family information. They do repeat everything you say at home. If you say something within earshot of your children, the chances of them telling us are really high.
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Take the phones away and turn off the TV before bed. We know that electronics like TV, phones, and tablets negatively affect sleep, because the blue light they emit suppresses melatonin and disrupt circadian rhythms. You need to make sure they go to sleep on timeĪccording to the Healthy Sleep website, from the Harvard Medical School Division of Sleep Medicine, “Lack of adequate sleep affects mood, motivation, judgment, and our perception of events.” Healthy sleep habits include a calming bedtime routine and a bedtime that allows students to get at least eight hours of sleep. The most successful students have learned a growth mindset and resiliency in the face of difficult tasks. They have to try, they have to apply themselves, and they have to do the work. For learning to occur, students have to be receptive.
I love to teach and have trained to do it well. Teaching and learning are two separate things. But a student who doesn’t have their basic needs met at home will have a hard time learning much in school. Will I step into an advocate role if need be? Of course. These children need food, shoes, deodorant, help filling out their FAFSA or finding their birth certificate. Many students come to my classroom without an involved adult figure in the home. I want our relationship to be a partnership My degree is in education, and while all teachers have taken some child psychology classes and many are parents ourselves, we are not parenting experts. How do I get him to do his homework?” I wish I had a magic bullet for this situation, but I don’t. The parent says something along the lines of “I just can’t get him to do anything at home. I cannot count the number of times a parent or guardian has come into a conference at their wit’s end with their unruly adolescent. Here, in no specific order, are a few of the things I wish my families understood. There are many things I wish I could say to parents or guardians many things I wish I could make them understand. Most everyone passes through the school system, but unless you’ve been a teacher, it’s hard to understand our day-to-day realities.
The burden of teaching is bittersweet – it’s one of the greatest jobs in the world and also one of the most misunderstood.
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