If you can get past your initial response, you’ll often find valuable lessons that you can apply for the remainder of your teaching career. It’s tough to hear someone tell you there are things you could be doing better. One area in which this is applicable is after "teacher observations". It’s also important to let go of the pain and then look for the lesson.
When tough stuff happens it’s important to feel it fully. Truth is, many of the most important lessons I’ve learned so far have come from painful moments. Instinctually we avoid things that cause us pain. “The things which hurt,” Benjamin Franklin wrote, “instruct.” This work puts us in a position to create more good times and to weather the storms when appear. Time spent working on ourselves is time well spent. Good things and bad things will always happen. We can control what we can control and that’s it. but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. The Obstacle is the Way - Golden Lines and Reaction ** Golden Lines ( description and free resource) - These are some of my favorite lines from the book along with my reaction.
It turned out to be one of those, “I picked up the right book at the right time” moments. I had been following Ryan Holiday on his site Daily Stoic for a while, long enough to see that the foundations of Stoicism had applications in teaching, my personal life, and during “pandemic” times. I purchased The Obstacle is the Way* after the first Covid lockdowns occurred.
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