How To Know What You Want as a Teacher (Even If You're a People Pleaser)
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How To Know What You Want as a Teacher (Even If You're a People Pleaser)

B1IntermediateSeptember 10, 202633 min
  • One speaker
  • Relationships & psychology

If you're a teacher and someone asked you right now what you actually want, could you answer? Most teachers can't. You can tell me exactly what your students need, what your admin needs, what your own kids need. Ask what you want, and it's silence. This is part 2 of a 3-part replay series pulled from the exact episodes that came out with my book two years ago, and they still hold up completely. We're covering the second step of the Inside-Out Teacher Framework: Choose. Once you've started observing your thoughts, feelings, and nervous system (that...

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You spend all day making sure the little humans in your classroom or maybe the big humans, depending on what grade level you teach, but either way, you're making sure that they have what they need, that they're taken care of. They have a pencil.

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They have what they need to do their assignments, their needs are met. You, you go above and beyond for those students. I just know it. If you hit play on this episode and then you go home and you make sure that

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everyone else has what they need to maybe you get your kids to different activities, maybe you're making dinner. Maybe you were asking your partner how their day went. And there's a chance that maybe you're doing so much for everyone else

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