Keep Up!
It’s that time of year where we all need to make the decision do we keep up or give up? It is a daily choice we make as educators. Do we cave into the inevitable exhaustion? Do we lie to ourselves and say we haven’t given up and fake it until the end of the school year in a state of denial? Or do we muster up the seemingly nonexistent energy we have left and push through until summer? Of course none of us want to be “that teacher” that gives up or fakes it, but it is so much easier said than done.
Over these last six to eight weeks of school, we must stay genuinely engaged for our students so that they have a glimmering hope of not slipping into the dreaded “summer vacation mode” a month too early. Let’s be honest with ourselves, if we allow our students to slip into vacation mode we will have a nightmare on our hands and we will have to exert more energy than if we would have just kept on teaching. Our students “kid radar” is always in tuned and can sense if we are not on top of our game. Before we know it classroom management will become a colossal conundrum of pure chaos if we don't keep up. Let’s save our sanity and avoid the chaos so we don’t have to waste our summer vacation recovering from the end of the school year insanity!
Cheers to doing ourselves a favor and choosing to listen to the wise tea bag and, “Keep up”! Cheers to being the teacher we all want to be. Cheers to not letting our students give up. Take a few moments to relax and enjoy your tea. You deserve it.
