Around this time of season, the shine starts to come off the academic year as evenings get darker, weather gets colder and any honeymoon period you have had with classes subsides to a more day-to-day familiarity.
It is easy to find yourself overwhelmed, tired and demoralised and that can take its toll on your overall wellbeing alongside shaping your longer-term attitudes to teaching as a career. So here is some advice to help brighten these dark months and improve your day-to-day experiences as a teacher.
Even though you are surrounded by students, teaching can be a fairly solitary profession. Opportunities to see other people teaching is limited so it is easy to get yourself into the mindset that everyone else in the school is delivering flawless lessons, has perfect behaviour and has no problems. It is really important to realise that nobody is as perfect as you might assume.
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