Oct

27

When You Throw Coals At Someone You’ll Burn Your Hands.

Filed Under Dealing With Stress 

I came back to my classes today after being away on conference for two days. I had attended a two day conference on Instructional Intelligence. It was excellent. I think every teacher should have the opportunity to hear what Barry Bennett has to say. Check out the link. It’s well worth your time. I’d left lessons for my classes that I thought they could manage.- not too challenging but not boring. I had spent quite a bit of time on these lessons actually and was quite pleased with them. I was convinced that my students would find them engaging.

I was convinced, but I was wrong. Many of my students didn’t complete their work. Some of my students even skipped class when they found out I wasn’t there. Needless to say, I was very angry disappointed. I try not to get angry because being angry is not good for your health. Someone once told me that being angry at someone is like holding hot coals in your hand and throwing them at the person you’re mad at. You end up hurting yourself because you’ve burned your hands while holding the coals. Well, my hands were burning all day long even though I threw the coals (yelled at the kids) in the morning. How many years have I been teaching at risk kids. You’d think I would have learn by now. Obviously not!

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