I am in my 6th year of teaching high school English and the burnout is strong. I’ve worked in 2 districts that have struggled significantly for VERY different reasons while I’ve been there (poverty, then politics and enrollment).
I plan to quit teaching after this year. I’ve thought from day 1 that the moment you stop loving teaching is the moment you should quit. Last year was so tough, and I thought this year would bounce me back because my students are SO smart this year. However, I’m still struggling just to get through the days. One of the biggest obstacles is my open classroom. I am constantly surrounded by noise and stimulation, and don’t have any type of office I can escape to for quiet. This makes grading essays nearly impossible for me, so my grading is piling up.
I have so much respect for the field; I don’t want to be one of those people that phones it in, but I am struggling so much to care about the extras teachers are expected to do (extracurricular club, accreditation committee, PLC, etc.) when I can barely even summon the energy to grade papers. Plus an AP class was sprung on me this year, so I’m doing miles of extra work for that, but it’s never enough.
Does anyone have words of wisdom? How do I make it through the rest of the year? We’re barely in quarter 2!!
Submitted October 31, 2019 at 09:06PM by Jjennings5 https://ift.tt/2PDM9kq
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