Choosing what to fail at
Choosing What to Fail At - A Guide to Keeping Your Sanity It is a well known fact that a teachers work is never done. There will always be something else we can do to help our students make progress, or to fit a school agenda, Ofsted criteria etc. In an ideal world our work life would be balanced between teaching and being able to do all these things, but of course education does not live in an ‘ideal world’. Understand your reality During the last academic year I decided it was time to move schools after 16 years at the same one. I was putting in applications, going for interviews, completing an NPQ and the full time job, as well as being a Mum, writing articles etc. Boy did it get busy. Just writing that list I wonder what on earth I was thinking! I got a dream job, and moved to a new school and a promotion to leading my own department at the start of the academic year. I love it!! But it’s hard work. I cannot do everything that needs to be done. I cannot do it quick enough to l...