Yesterday we attended a professional development session that I can't stop thinking about. It was AWESOME and I have to share the following analogy with all of my teacher friends:
If you are a doctor, should you complain about people coming to you because they are sick (even if it is the BILLIONTH time you have had to examine them)? No - it is your job to treat them! Think of yourself as a "doctor" in the classroom, with 20 different patients that you must treat at one time. If your "patients" come to you with a question, should you be angry with them (even if it is the BILLIONTH time that you've had to answer THAT question)? No - because it is your job to teach them! You have to take a deep breath and think of what medicine will cure that particular patient.
It makes so much sense to me! I thought of this many times throughout the day and it has already proven effective in teaching me PATIENCE :)
TRY IT!
I love this advice! Thanks you for sharing. It reminds me of the old suppply teacher that was in our school years ago. She said that when she walked in to a classroom of 20 students, whe put up 20 different antennae to understand each one of them.
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Mama C,