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Looking For a Job While Employed: To Search or Not To Search?
Is your job what you honestly looked for, feel excited about, can’t wait to get back to? Have you ever asked yourself these questions? If the answers are yes, yes, yes, then you are most likely an entrepreneur. If the answers are no, no, no, then you are most probably like me always pondering the possibility of a new job search while being already employed or just hired. I wouldn’t describe it as impatience, lack of commitment, not knowing your stuff, or lack of focus. When you look for a job the first time, you just need the job, just something straight out of the college because you need to…
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Gut-level Teacher’s Confession.
I’m a teacher, and I’m not sure I’m comfortable with that. It started long ago. I remember having dinner at one of my father’s friend’s house. It was right after my admission to a quite high-ranking university in my country. I was radiating pride and happiness. The conversation came to the point that my father’s friend asked what career I was going to have after I graduate. “Teacher,” my father replied. I never forgot what happened after that. Suddenly, the whole world, the grandeur of my existence and my recent accomplishments have been annihilated by the wicked smirk. “That’s all?! Just a teacher? Well,” he responded. I don’t clearly…
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Does Financial Literacy Have to Be Part of Teachers’ Training?
Cool! At least I have a stable job! At some point in my life, I paused to ponder the following question: why do I feel the vacuum of the information I need and how can I fill this in? Moving between the idea “Cool! At least I have a stable job!” and the realization “Do I feel truly fulfilled? ”, I was struggling to understand what was tugging on me, and why I felt I was deprived of something. What I have noticed is I sincerely wanted to up my game in the classroom when working with students and start delivering value to their lives in a way traditional education…
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Handling the Overwhelm in First Years of Teaching and Beyond.
I am sure like me, you have been driving home from work, your head buzzing with what you’ve been trying to digest from the school day, and you had a thought, “Is what I am doing sustainable? Can I continue doing it for year and years?” The answer was probably, “Oh my gosh! It’s insane…” You probably have been waking up early like me at 5:30 a.m. for the fifth day in a row, feeling absolutely exhausted, dragging yourself to the kitchen to gobble your breakfast and empty a cup of coffee into your stomach in less than twenty minutes. You probably felt like calling off sick, but then you…
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33 Ways to Save Time and Money as a Teacher.
I have recently listened to the episode “What would your life look like if you valued your time as much as you value your money?” by Angela Watson from www.thecornerstonefroteachers.com. It made me think about hours and hours of time lost in my first year of teaching. I started reevaluating my time input and the value of my time during the second year of my career at a high school. Yep, second-year new ng teacher become smart! Unlike in a community college where I would teach the same course over and over again to different students, in high school, I would experiment a lot with a variety of materials and…
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10 Lessons I Learned My First 2 Years of Teaching.
Hello! It’s almost the end of the school year, and although a lot of you are stressing our because of coming or ongoing observations, planning finals and trying to keep children on task, it’s a great time to reflect and pat yourself on the back having survived one more year! Hooray! In this post, I’m going to share ten lessons I’ve learned in my two years of teaching in a public school system. For some of you who don’t know my struggles as a new teacher, read this post about my struggles. I need to say, a person and a professional I am now is due to the constant reflection…
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Why I Stopped My Contributions to 403b for Teachers.
From the author: In this post, I will list 5 reasons why I stopped my contribution to teacher’s 403b plan. Hi there! This is quite an intimidating topic to write about. You see, I’m not a numbers girl, but I do go far and beyond my uncomfortable situation about numbers to find out where my pennies are going. Being aware of how your money is spent has nothing to do with stinginess or even frugality. I would say it’s a trend that everyone is following now. For me, it’s looking for bargains, finding natural products for a reasonable price, appreciating simple things and getting off the consumer society bandwagon. Let’s…
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Rich Teacher, Poor Teacher
The choices I made in my life have not always been conscious and pre-planned. Many times my decisions were made because I didn’t see another way of doing something or be someone else. And if you ask me how I became a language teacher, I will tell you honestly: language was the best thing I could do. I never regretted being in an educational area; however, I have always felt there was much more to being a teacher than just teaching students. I never felt completely happy or unhappy about what I am. I never felt fulfilled or empty. I am just convinced that what I knew and heard about…
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How to fight impostor syndrome.
In this post, I am going to share four tips about how to fight impostor syndrome. Most commonly impostor syndrome is defined as a psychosomatic (syn.: psychological, stress-related, irrational) pattern in which people doubt their accomplishments and have persistent, often internalized fear of being exposed as a “fraud.” I hope these tips will help you learn something more about you and the journey you might have ahead of you. In my second year in a public school system in the US, I understood one critical thing: all the teachers, whether you are a beginner or a spiced, experienced one, – all of us can relate in one way or another.…
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Best Transformational Books!
In this post, I will share some of the excellent books I gobbled recently. These books have been transformational to me, the best of my reads for the year, offering an enjoyable past-time. I know that books can be an enjoyable read, or they can be the beginning of something more significant in your life. So as a dedicated bookworm, I am giving you a gift of these remarkable, compelling self-help books that made me a much happier person with a mission! Disclosure: There are some affiliate links below (I get commissions for purchases made through links in this post), but these are all products I highly recommend. I won’t…
