A blog by Andrew Marcinek entitled Just Get Out There hit home today. It talked about how everyone has excuses, and in the teaching profession, we hear numerous excuses on a daily basis. Not just from students but colleagues as well. Today was a perfect example. Six colleagues and I are working on a big data analysis project. Today was records day (end of marking period) and we were to get a majority of the work done today. Myself and a teacher aide were the only two that worked on it. If every other member would have put in just one hour we would have had it done. Needless to say, I get to work on it tomorrow. Major frustration. Enough venting…back to the article. The gist of the article was “drop the excuses and just do it.” Do something new with your class. Share something with your colleagues. Join Twitter or Facebook. Explore a little. So no more excuses, here is my first blog.
Jill, I think you make a great point about how too many of us make excuses and we need to just work together to get the job done. Being a teacher and the behavior specialist for the school, pointing fingers on who didn't do their job is all too easy. I have to remind the team that we are all important pieces of the puzzle and if we don't "do our part," then the puzzle pieces will not fit together. The same goes for the parents and schools. If we don't communicate and work together as a team, then the student will not have a solid support system.
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