Teaching through Emotions
Teaching through Emotions
He was bored with his own teaching. Here's how he brought joy back.
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He was bored with his own teaching. Here's how he brought joy back.

Season 1 Episode 2: If you're not having fun teaching, why do it?

COVID was extremely, unusually, horribly difficult for most if not all teachers. Jeremy, a math teacher, was no exception. He was pretty sure he could not teach under COVID conditions — until he figured out how to make his classes fun even when they were fully remote. Of course, COVID is behind us now (thank goodness). But teachers can still feel deeply disconnected from their students.

In this episode, we explore

  • how to reverse self-doubt

  • the importance of knowing your strengths AND your weaknesses

  • how to think about making classrooms (even when they’re remote) fun

  • the importance of relationships — between teacher and students, between student and student, and between students and the content

We’re not living through a pandemic anymore, but we are seeing behaviors in classrooms that were rare pre-COVID. If you have a knotty problem you’d like to get some relief from, click on Share a Story and type away! It’s completely confidential. I’ll get in touch and we’ll go from there.

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