Teacher burnout has a habit of sneaking up on you. You do not wake up one day completely depleted. It builds gradually, disguised as a particularly hard week, an unusually difficult class, a year that just never seemed to let up. The problem is that by the time most teachers recognise it, they have already been running on empty for months. Here are five signs worth paying attention to, and some honest thoughts on what to do when you spot them. 1. You feel exhausted before the
I have been teaching for more than 20 years and every year it seems that it gets a little bit harder. In the past, I would dream about work during the holidays. Now I dream about the holidays while I am teaching. And please, don't get me wrong. I still love teaching. I really do. I would not be able to survive in a corporate job, sitting in an office doing the same thing every single day, like staring at a computer... But as the years go by, I feel that I spend way more time
