#44: The one thing you need to do during the holidays to improve your classroom management in 2024.

The Unteachables Podcast

I spent the first 5 years of my career feeling like I needed to be ‘all over’ every single facet of the lesson to contain and reduce challenging behaviours. This meant working through almost every weekend and break that I had.
Yes, it helped my classroom management! I was able to create lessons that were well-resourced, pitched right, scaffolded brilliantly so students could access them, relevant… all of the things that support us in mitigating some of the challenging behaviours that we may see.
What I didn’t release at the time was I was taking two steps forward and three steps back. I wasn’t resting, I wasn’t filling my cup, I wasn’t investing in myself, and I was BURNT OUT. Worse yet, I was on the brink of full-blown compassion fatigue after spending years absorbing the traumas of the young people I worked with.
This meant I was missing the biggest piece of the classroom management puzzle.
Ensuring I was okay, that I was regulated, that I had the capacity to co-regulate, stay calm, and influence the energy in the room. As cliched as it sounds, I wasn’t putting my own oxygen mask on before fitting it onto those around me.
So as we head into the holidays, this episode is a big reminder that resting is the most important thing that you can do, because the efficacy of your teacher self, is reliant on the health and wellbeing of your real life self. If this sounds like something you need a little bit of a reminder around, or you struggle to set boundaries, then this is the episode for you.
This is the last episode of The Unteachables Podcast for 2023 - I will be back Tuesday 8th January! I can’t wait to continue to support you in 2024.

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Chapters

1. #44: The one thing you need to do during the holidays to improve your classroom management in 2024. (00:00:00)

2. Managing Burnout in Teaching (00:00:10)

3. Two Weeks of Personal Time (00:13:11)

4. Journey, Reviews, and Well-Deserved Break (00:16:44)