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Managing stress and staying on top of administrivia by using the one minute rule
It’s getting near the end of the semester, and I feel as if I’m being buried in paper work. There seems to be an endless flow of emails to read and answer, forms to fill out, and reports to be...
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You don’t have to be a superhero to teach kids who are academically at-risk
powered by Fotopedia Sometimes we can get the wrong idea about what it takes to successfully teach kids who are academically at-risk. You don’t have to be a superhero like Erin Gruwell in Freedom...
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Are you frustrated and stressed in your teaching practice because you have to...
“So much of our frustrations and stress arise from incongruity- incongruity between what we think, feel or say is important and how we actually spend our time” (Cirocco, p. 52) Isn’t that the truth....
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Teachers are victims of cyberbullying
Teacher cyberbullying is a hot topic. I recently had the pleasure (?) of being able to talk about teacher cyberbully on Metro morning, Radio 1, our local Toronto CBC radio station. I talked about why...
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Ontario College of Teachers and school boards need to do more to protect...
The Ontario College of Teachers and school boards are supposed to protect students from teachers who engage in criminal behaviour that does not respect teacher/student boundaries. Is OCT doing...
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Students’ second-hand stress is contagious and can transfer to teachers
Image via Wikipedia Stress is contagious. We have come to understand the effects of second-hand smoke, and now we are beginning to understand the effects of second-hand stress. When students come to...
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How Teachers Can Manage Stress through Five Fitness Tips
If you have been following my blog, you’ll know that I suffered from teacher burnout and took a medical leave from November to March. I wasn’t managing my stress very well, to put it mildly. Matt...
View ArticleThank you Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation for all you’ve done...
I want to thank the Ontario Secondary School Teachers Federation (OSSTF) for all the support I’ve gotten throughout my 30 year teaching career. OSSTF/FEESO was founded in 1919 and has 60,000 members...
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Do you ever feel as if you’re just a clog in the education system?
Often, especially early in my teaching career, I’ve felt as if I was just a clog in the education system or maybe just a type of resource for the education system to use. I’m a resource because I...
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Your mindset in and out of the classroom can affect more people than you think.
Your mindset in and out of the classroom affects more people than you think. Monique Valcour argues people’s mindsets at work not only impact their coworkers but also impact people’s partners, their...
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