Resilence

To be resilient means to recoil or spring back into shape after having been compressed, stretched or misshapen. So how does this apply to teaching? Teachers will often be stressed with their work load, the constant stream of parents asking about their child's performance, and the behavior of the students. A teacher needs to be resilient in order to deal with this.

First of all, a teacher needs to love teaching in order to effectively bounce back from any stresses. They need to know they are making a difference in the child's life and be passionate about their job. Teaching should be about reaching every student and making a difference in their life, but this is very tough and impractical to do. A teacher needs to have realistic expectations for their students and their own performance. To deal with the stress of being a teaching, they should take some time for themselves and relax and do something they enjoy outside of teaching. Too many constant stresses will break a teacher down so that they are no longer as effective as they can possibly be. A teacher will impact a students life the most with the time spent in the classroom. So instead of staying up all night to grade papers and tests, it is important for a teacher to relax some. The students can wait a day or two to get their papers back. Plus if you take you sweet time on papers and grading you will be spending more attention to detail and probably give more quality feedback to the the student than if you had done them all in one night. Overall, a teacher needs to love what they do and know their limits as to what they can reasonably accomplish. There will be stresses, but a teacher needs to be resilient in order to bounce back and be the most effective teacher they can be.