Any teacher can tell you...no matter how much you've planned, prepared, assessed, reflected, studied, copied, sorted, filed, stacked, stapled, graded, or organized, sometimes your day will feel like the flight of the bumblebee (see video).
But that just means you're doing it right.
Because honestly, teacher friends, let's admit that if you do it right, this job is harder than you ever imagined it would be, if only for the simple fact that our work is never done. Your lesson could be the most amazing, spectacular, news-worthy piece of educational material the world has ever seen, but if you're a teacher-to-the-core, that means your lesson still has room for improvement.
I'm reworking or revamping my lessons at the most inopportune times (wide awake and making mental notes at 3:31 a.m., writing down ideas on the back of old receipts stuffed into the bottom of my purse, sacrificing my first restroom break of the day to make copies of the new and improved lesson). But when inspiration strikes, teachers-to-the-core take full advantage. Somedays I'm buzzing around my room, my building, or sometimes just my own thoughts, trying to keep up with an idea that has just surfaced. I'm on a mission, I'm the bumbleME.
And while it may seem exhausting to watch a bumblebee or teacher-to-the-core in flight, remember that this is what we were born to do. To us, it's a way of life, the only way we know how to live.
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