Enhance Your Teaching Skills During Your Lunch Break!

Enhance Your Teaching Skills During Your Lunch Break!

I’m worried about our teachers and you should be, too!

They are leaving teaching in droves.  According to a recent study done by the NEA.com, approximately fifty-five per cent of our teachers are considering quitting teaching.  That’s up from 37 per cent last year. Yikes!

Reasons?  Just what you’d expect–exhaustion, demoralized, understaffed and underappreciated. (We won’t even talk about underpaid–that’s been a given for a really long time and a real blight on our country as a whole, I think.)

I hate seeing this, but I don’t blame anyone who is considering quitting.  I considered several times during my career. However, during my career nothing was as severe as at present.

While I can’t fix the climate of a school I can help.

Yikes!

Enhance Your Teaching Skills During Your Lunch Break!

Let’s say you only have thirty minutes for lunch.  Now let’s pretend we sitting together at lunch.  I hear you sigh.

I say to you, “How’s it going today?”

You say, “Terrible. The students are not engaged, rowdy, emotional and disrespectful. I just don’t know what to do.”

I pat you on your shoulder and smile, “I got you. I can help fix your problems.”

“How?” you ask me.

“Simple.  This afternoon, you are going to use creative dramatics to engage your students.  I can’t guarantee it, but if you follow my guidance your students will change right in front of your eyes.”

At this point, I would pull out a few lessons of mine. I smile and say, ” These lessons were created for the express purpose of integrating drama into the classroom.”

The Benefits of Creative Dramatics in the Classroom