The Big Question
Beside doing this blog, I also send out a weekly newsletter called the Sunday Spirit Spark as well as host a podcast called Teacher Tales.
You can check all of these out at Spirit of Teaching
I started this journey for the Spirit of Teaching during the pandemic when I witnessed my beloved friends and colleagues and profession struggling and suffering and losing their compass and direction.
The question that came up a lot was WHY?
Why should I keep doing this when kids don’t even show up for the Zoom meeting or keep their cameras on or do their work or ???
Why should I put my health and well-being on the line in a pandemic?
Why should I even care if no one else cares?
Why? Why? Why? echoed through the hearts of teachers across the world more than ever before.
In fact, post-pandemic, it is still simmering in the background of every teacher’s mind as more and more challenges come about.
Challenges like teachers being told that they can’t teach certain things or have certain books in their libraries or talk about certain topics or do certain activities in class o push back against excessively aggressive and bullying parents and students. The list goes on…
The big question in the classroom has always been and always will be WHY?
So, today I was doing a podcast recording with a teacher who said that in order to keep his focus and stay in the profession, he had to always remind himself of his “WHY?”
Why did I become a teacher?
Why do I show up every day at school?
Why ___________? fill in the blank (more…)
