{"id":58,"date":"2018-05-03T17:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-03T17:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itslitteaching.wordpress.com\/?p=58"},"modified":"2023-09-30T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T15:57:49","slug":"guide-to-thrive-the-one-thing-your-students-need-the-most","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/guide-to-thrive-the-one-thing-your-students-need-the-most\/","title":{"rendered":"What One Thing Do Your Students Need the Most?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What do you think your students need from you more than anything else? Our curriculum coordinators might tell us it&rsquo;s differentiated instruction or meaningful assessment. Administrators may want us to focus on test-taking strategies, or incorporating more writing into our courses. Your well-meaning colleagues might say it&rsquo;s compassion and understanding. <\/span><strong>Me? I think it&rsquo;s easy. 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Really?<\/em> You might think I&rsquo;m off of my rocker. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know. You may have even exited out of this blog post, appalled, never to return again. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, I want you to think about you and your coworkers. How much time and energy are you putting into your job? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I&rsquo;ve walked in on coworkers crying in the main office because their students were too much. I&rsquo;ve listened to pregnant colleagues talk about staying up until midnight, working on sub plans, and compiling assessment data, so their replacement will be well-informed. I watch colleagues rolling <em>suitcases<\/em> filled with papers to grade out of the building&ndash;their exciting weekend plans.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As I leave the building, I&rsquo;m always passing other classrooms and worrying about those behind the doors. <em>How late are they staying tonight?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>There is no school in this country that has an apathy problem. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is that we care too much. All we do is walk around, caring so, so much.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I know you dream about your students. You see a movie and think about the student in your&nbsp;class who were looking forward to this film too. When that one student arrives late, you worry&ndash;if he or she missed their free breakfast, how will he or she eat? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too many teachers are sacrificing their time and relationships for this job. Am I saying you shouldn&rsquo;t care? Of course not. <strong>But you shouldn&rsquo;t be sacrificing your own happiness, goals, pursuits, and friendships for <\/strong><em><strong>work<\/strong><\/em><strong>. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>As much as teaching is a calling, it is still a job.<\/strong> <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And jobs shouldn&rsquo;t consume your life. <strong>Maybe I sound callous, and maybe I am, but you&rsquo;re doing too much for your students.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/guide-to-thrive-the-one-thing-your-students-need-the-most\/?tp_image_id=2320\" data-pin-id=\"One Thing Students Need Most Pin 3\" data-pin-title=\"What One Thing Do Your Students Need Most?\" data-pin-description=\"All students need one thing from their teachers and not enough are getting it. What one thing do students need most? They need happy, healthy teachers, of course! Click to find out more #itslitteaching #selfcare #teachers #students #teachereselfcare\" data-src=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-3-683x1024.png\" alt=\"What One Thing Do Your Students Need Most Pinterest Pin\" class=\"wp-image-2320 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 512px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 512\/768;width:512px;height:768px\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-3-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-3-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-3-600x900.png 600w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-3.png 735w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">How Much is Too Much?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I want to share one of my deepest teaching philosophies: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I believe in working incredibly hard&ndash;forty hours a week.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ok, ok, I know. Following that philosophy isn&rsquo;t always feasible. It&rsquo;s probably nearly impossible in your first three years or your first year in a new building. It is, however, certainly a goal to shoot for. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maybe the week before grades or the week after essays are turned in you need to put in a few hours, but you should not be lugging home papers every night. If you&rsquo;re the bag lady of the school&ndash;or worse, you own one of those rolling suitcases&ndash;something needs to change<\/span>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When do you feel the best&ndash;I mean, excited to be at work, happy to engage with students, ready to start the day? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For me, it&rsquo;s when I&rsquo;ve slept, worked out, have a healthy lunch to look forward to, and I&rsquo;m about to teach something that I&rsquo;m passionate about. I doubt you look forward to work after charting student data or staying up late adding detailed feedback to a five-point assignment. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That teacher&ndash;the one who was up late grading, depends on the fifth cup of coffee, reuses the lesson the district gave her ten years ago&ndash;that teacher is set up for failure. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She isn&rsquo;t excited to be there and her students will pick up on that. In turn, they won&rsquo;t be excited to be there and their learning will suffer for it.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/guide-to-thrive-the-one-thing-your-students-need-the-most\/?tp_image_id=2319\" data-pin-id=\"One Thing Students Need Pin 1\" data-pin-title=\"What One Thing Do Your Students Need the Most?\" data-pin-description=\"Teachers, you sacrifice everything for your students. But are you giving them the one thing they need most? More than anything they need you, their educator, to care for themselves! Click for more! #itslitteaching #selfcare #teacherselfcare #students\" data-src=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-2-683x1024.png\" alt=\"What One Thing Do Your Students Need Most Pinterest Pin\" class=\"wp-image-2319 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 512px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 512\/768;width:512px;height:768px\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-2-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-2-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-2-600x900.png 600w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/one-thing-pin-2.png 735w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Your Students Need The Most Is For You to Take Care of You <em>F<\/em><\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">irst<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can&rsquo;t possibly help support someone else when you yourself are in need. I always think of the oxygen masks on planes&ndash;in the case of an emergency, put yours on before helping others. If you neglect this step because you&rsquo;re so worried about your kids, you&rsquo;ll never make it long enough to help them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Teacher burnout is the greatest threat to your career. We have to be proactive, not reactive, in fighting it.<\/strong> I hope throughout this blog to give some tips on this&ndash;not just self-care, but when to enter survival mode and when it&rsquo;s worth it to put in the extra time. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For now, I encourage you to look at all aspects of your life: where should you be more selfish? <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you spending a ton of time grading? Then you need to find a way to streamline the process. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Are you frantically trying to string lessons together and panicked about what to do next month, next week tomorrow? <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.teacherspayteachers.com\/Store\/Its-Lit-Teaching?utm_source=itslitteaching.com&amp;utm_campaign=The%20One%20Thing%20Your%20Students%20Need%20Most\" target=\"_blank\">There are resources for that&ndash;Teachers Pay Teachers is a lifesaver!<\/a> Find a lesson\/unit\/bundle you LOVE and do that well, rather than spend hours and hours reinventing the wheel. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Is all of your time being eaten up by students? <strong>Then practice saying no.<\/strong> No, you can&rsquo;t come in during lunch. No, you can&rsquo;t come in during my prep. You can&rsquo;t stay after school&ndash;I will be busy living my life. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>For forty hours a week, give your all to this job.<\/strong> Work hard. Collaborate. <\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But your students are depending on you to be a well-rounded, emotionally stable adult, so they can learn from your example. Show them what a healthy work-life balance looks like. Set boundaries. Taking care of yourself is the best thing you can do for your kids.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-pin-url=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/guide-to-thrive-the-one-thing-your-students-need-the-most\/?tp_image_id=2318\" data-pin-id=\"One Thing Students Need Pin 2\" data-pin-title=\"What One Thing Do Your Students Need Most?\" data-pin-description=\"Are you leaving school late? Are you spending evenings grading papers? With as much as you work on your teaching career, you may have forgotten to give students the one thing they need most. Click to find out what that is! #itslitteaching #selfcare #students #teachers\" data-src=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/One-thing-pin-1-683x1024.png\" alt=\"What One Thing Do Your Students Need Most Pinterest Pin\" class=\"wp-image-2318 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 512px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 512\/768;width:512px;height:768px\" width=\"512\" height=\"768\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/One-thing-pin-1-683x1024.png 683w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/One-thing-pin-1-200x300.png 200w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/One-thing-pin-1-768x1152.png 768w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/One-thing-pin-1-600x900.png 600w, https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/One-thing-pin-1.png 1000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Not Sure Where to Start?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You can start learning some basic <a href=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/2018\/06\/20\/5-self-care-tips-for-teachers-from-a-real-teachers-pet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">self-care in this blog post<\/a>. If you&rsquo;re having a bad day, <a href=\"https:\/\/itslitteaching.com\/2018\/02\/16\/what-do-we-do-on-the-bad-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this post is a great read<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<center><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/194953927X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=194953927X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=itslitteach05-20&amp;linkId=f6295209e513ad434a23c588efd8d45e\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ASIN=194953927X&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=itslitteach05-20\"><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" data-pin-nopin=\"nopin\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=itslitteach05-20&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=194953927X\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\"><\/center>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you think your students need from you more than anything else? Our curriculum coordinators might tell us it&#8217;s differentiated instruction or meaningful assessment. Administrators may want us to focus on test-taking strategies, or incorporating more writing into our courses. Your well-meaning colleagues might say it\u2019s compassion and understanding. My answer may shock you, but I stand behind it: your students need you to be more selfish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3793,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[37,38,58,59,70],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-teacherlife","tag-guide","tag-guide-to-thrive","tag-self-care","tag-selfish","tag-thrive"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>What One Thing Do Your Students Need the Most? - It&#039;s Lit Teaching<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What do you think your students need from you more than anything else? 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