How to Deal with the Stress of Teaching | Classroom Management

How to Deal with the Stress of Teaching | Classroom Management

Teaching is stressful.

And one of the things that makes it really stressful for us is that, we deal with a lot of negative behaviors, misbehaviors or off-task behaviors from our students all day long every day.

And it wears us down a little bit and one of the things to remember inside of that that will lower our stress, is to remember that students don't act out in a vacuum.

Students that are coming from happy, healthy, secure backgrounds don't act out in class most of the time.

Usually we're dealing with kids with really rough lives outside the classroom, and when we can remember that and have some compassion for that, it helps us lower our frustrations and that lowers our stress.

And then we can work with them more productively around being accountable for their behavior but doing it in a way that isn't punishing them for misbehaving, but is rather trying to teach them behavioral lessons.