![]() Teaching is beautiful work, colleague - but it's also so very hard sometimes.Workload is the biggest reason for teachers leaving the profession, new research by UCL Institute of Education (IOE) shows.Ī survey of around 1,200 current and former teachers showed that despite being aware of the workload challenges before entering teaching, it was still the most frequently cited reason for having left, or for wanting to leave in the future. Your work matters, colleague - but so do youĪfter you've completed your month of trying these things, then you have to take an honest look at how you're feeling about your work today and the prospects for that work in the future. That's what The Will to Learn is for - helping you to do the things that most efficiently influence student motivation for the better. The good news is that student beliefs are malleable and that we as teachers can, over time, make a significant impact on those beliefs. Few things are as spiritually demoralizing as doing work that you believe in with students who emphatically do NOT share your beliefs. I wrote my book because I know firsthand how thoroughly depleting student demotivation can be as a teacher. And you end up feeling overstretched and overwhelmed (that is, you'll feel burnt out). If you don't keep a work schedule, it's hard to force yourself to satisfice. As those get completed, budget in some time to do things that you find enjoyable or restorative. During these not-at-work times, attend to non-teaching responsibilities that give you a greater sense of control over the rest of your life.When you're not in a “work” part of your day, rid yourself of any and all teaching stimuli - no email access, no work text messages, no paper stacks sitting on the counter.Share your work schedule with someone who loves you and will help hold you accountable.Set specific constraints for weekend work (e.g., Saturday mornings until 11 a.m.).Set a specific start and end time to your workday (e.g., start at 6 a.m., end by 5 p.m.).In order to make more space in your life for non-teaching work - and to force yourself into satisficing - set a strict work schedule for yourself that you'll follow for the next month while you consider whether or not to stay in teaching. There's more about satisficing in the video I made at the top of this article. ![]()
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