Goal: Avoid Burn-Out of The 30 Goals Challenge for Educators.
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”~ Mary Anne Radmacher
This year’s theme is, “This is MY Moment.” Each goal will focus on getting educators to believe their plans of action now will lead to positive changes and transformation in their teaching and learning environments.
My Take on the Goal
Each year as a teacher I struggle with burn-out. The number one thing that helps me is SUPPORT, support from friends, family, and my PLN. Part of the reason The 30 Goals is more collaborative this year is because I have found that when you ask your friends to join a movement and give them the freedom to help you out, the movement moves. We can’t successfully or effectively complete our mission as educators without support. Vicky Loras, an amazing friend actually posted about Goal 2 first and this kicked things up for me as well as the feedback and activity from our Facebook community. It’s great to know that the community of educators we have built will be there when things get busy or life events get in the way.
Another important way I avoid burn-out is through taking time for myself everyday. I pause. I tend to be a workaholic and a type A person so being stressed is something I struggle with daily. Therefore, I have created 2 to do lists- my actual one and a personal to do list. Sometimes as teachers we allow our to do list to take up our personal to do list. Everyday I try to chuck something from the to do list and instead focus on the personal to do list. This action signifies to me that I am making steps toward giving myself “me” time. I also schedule Google calendar alerts that remind me to take time for myself.
New to The 30 Goals Challenge? Each year, teachers worldwide aim to accomplish 1 to 30 goals that transform their teaching. Join the movement by accomplishing any goal from any of the cycles then letting us know through a blog reflection or status update on our Facebook community or on Twitter, @30GoalsEdu . At our official site, 30Goals.com, find all the goals, participant reflections, badges, and get your copy of The 30 Goals for Teachers: Small Steps to Transform Your Classroom workbook. Click here to discover all the 2015 goals!
For more ideas about this goal, check out the video I did in 2011.
Goal
Long-term– Begin to schedule weekly even daily times where you leave your work as an educator behind and aim for balance. We can’t save them all. We have to try to find away to let go. How can we best do this?
More Posts Related to This Goal
- Anita Kwiatkowska on teacher burn-out on Ken Wilson’s blog
- Tension Toolbox by Julie Cunningham
- Goal: Leave it Behind by Naomi Epstein
Challenge:
Take an hour for yourself each day for a week. Add ideas of ways you avoid burn-out by contributing to our Pinterest Board on avoiding burn-out!
Follow Shelly Sanchez’s board Ways to Avoid Burn-Out as a Teacher on Pinterest.
