There are days when teachers feel down, powerless, ineffective, used up. The great plans have gone sideways. It feels as though our students have taken every ounce of strength and energy from us.
We often ask yourselves whether we matter in the lives of our students. We ask ourselves, “What impact do I even have?”.
It is during these days that we must remember that what we do has an affect on our students. Teaching matters. It has the largest impact of any factor of school.
Teachers have the power to change lives. What they do with their students is more important that any other thing at school. What power and what responsibility!
We recognize there are others factors at play. Our students come from different home situations, they each have their own story of how they came to be with us in our class. These different situations have a big impact on their learning, but we don’t control these factors.
What we control is the school they walk into and at school the teacher is number 1. Let’s make it count, because teachers matter.
Corey Haley 