Red Flags For Teachers
Photograph by Alix Clarke Photography
We often think that going to school, university, and then back into learning facilities is the only way to navigate a career teaching or working with children.
And for a while, educating feels purposeful and it reflects your own experiences growing up as a student.
“Do as the adults say”, “finish this task or be reprimanded”, and “do not question”.
All while your time is managed by a bell ringing every 45 minutes.
Only after a few years on the other side of the desk do we stop and wonder…
“Why does the education system look this way?”
In fact, to deep dive into the research about education, child development, and learning is often a painful task because are smacked in the face with the harsh reality that our educational system, “the norm”, the one we grew up in and now enforce, does not actually reflect the latest data about how children learn.
I know this because I have been there myself as a High School teacher.
In today's podcast episode, I will be covering the Red Flags For Teachers, why they happen, and why I feel so passionate about helping others escape the mainstream education system. So much so, that instead of mentoring children we now focus on mentoring other children’s educators to teach in more authentic, child-centered, developmentally appropriate ways.
Here are the red flags for educators that are no longer aligning with the mainstream education system:
🚩 Teaching feels more like bribery
Being told the way to make children listen (and learn!) is to deal out reprimands if they don’t do as they are asked.
🚩You feel like a robot.
You’re bored! As you rinse and repeat the same information year after year.
🚩You don’t have the time to connect authentically with children
Your time is so crammed between curriculum needs that you don’t truly get to know or help the children in your care.
🚩You thought classrooms were the only place you could teach
You’re following the same path that your classroom teachers…. Even though they probably had more freedom to teach then!
There’s nothing more painful than being passionate about educating children but being stuck in a system that doesn’t cater to their or your needs as humans, and learners.
Often, it means dedicating years of your life trapped in a career, only to end up feeling misaligned with the real reason you wanted to teach in the first place.
There are alternative learning environments that YOU can create.
Whether it be Homeschool Co-Ops, After School Programs, School Excursions or School Holiday Programs.
Learning doesn’t just have to happen within a school or within school hours. We know this from first-hand experience and we know you can achieve this too.
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