#44: The one thing you need to do during the holidays to improve your classroom management in 2024.
12/19/23 • 17 min
I spent the first 5 years of my career feeling like I needed to be ‘all over’ every single facet of the lesson to contain and reduce challenging behaviours. This meant working through almost every weekend and break that I had.
Yes, it helped my classroom management! I was able to create lessons that were well-resourced, pitched right, scaffolded brilliantly so students could access them, relevant... all of the things that support us in mitigating some of the challenging behaviours that we may see.
What I didn’t release at the time was I was taking two steps forward and three steps back. I wasn’t resting, I wasn’t filling my cup, I wasn’t investing in myself, and I was BURNT OUT. Worse yet, I was on the brink of full-blown compassion fatigue after spending years absorbing the traumas of the young people I worked with.
This meant I was missing the biggest piece of the classroom management puzzle.
Ensuring I was okay, that I was regulated, that I had the capacity to co-regulate, stay calm, and influence the energy in the room. As cliched as it sounds, I wasn’t putting my own oxygen mask on before fitting it onto those around me.
So as we head into the holidays, this episode is a big reminder that resting is the most important thing that you can do, because the efficacy of your teacher self, is reliant on the health and wellbeing of your real life self. If this sounds like something you need a little bit of a reminder around, or you struggle to set boundaries, then this is the episode for you.
This is the last episode of The Unteachables Podcast for 2023 - I will be back Tuesday 8th January! I can’t wait to continue to support you in 2024.
Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!
JOIN MY FREE LIVE TRAINING: TURN YOUR TEACHING INTO A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MACHINE
RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:
- Shop all resources
- Join The Behaviour Club
- My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
- The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
- Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'
Connect with me:
- Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
- Check out my website
I spent the first 5 years of my career feeling like I needed to be ‘all over’ every single facet of the lesson to contain and reduce challenging behaviours. This meant working through almost every weekend and break that I had.
Yes, it helped my classroom management! I was able to create lessons that were well-resourced, pitched right, scaffolded brilliantly so students could access them, relevant... all of the things that support us in mitigating some of the challenging behaviours that we may see.
What I didn’t release at the time was I was taking two steps forward and three steps back. I wasn’t resting, I wasn’t filling my cup, I wasn’t investing in myself, and I was BURNT OUT. Worse yet, I was on the brink of full-blown compassion fatigue after spending years absorbing the traumas of the young people I worked with.
This meant I was missing the biggest piece of the classroom management puzzle.
Ensuring I was okay, that I was regulated, that I had the capacity to co-regulate, stay calm, and influence the energy in the room. As cliched as it sounds, I wasn’t putting my own oxygen mask on before fitting it onto those around me.
So as we head into the holidays, this episode is a big reminder that resting is the most important thing that you can do, because the efficacy of your teacher self, is reliant on the health and wellbeing of your real life self. If this sounds like something you need a little bit of a reminder around, or you struggle to set boundaries, then this is the episode for you.
This is the last episode of The Unteachables Podcast for 2023 - I will be back Tuesday 8th January! I can’t wait to continue to support you in 2024.
Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!
JOIN MY FREE LIVE TRAINING: TURN YOUR TEACHING INTO A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MACHINE
RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:
- Shop all resources
- Join The Behaviour Club
- My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
- The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
- Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'
Connect with me:
- Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
- Check out my website
Previous Episode
#43: 2023: The year I became a mother, a wife, and an author. Reflections, regrets, and lessons learnt.
2023 has been one of the biggest, and most transformational times in my life. Both professionally, and personally.
It has been a year where too many dreams decided to show up at once (I understand how much of an oxymoron that is).
So I just had to lean into the beautiful chaos of it all and MAKE it work.
I had a baby.
I wrote a book.
I ran my business.
I got married.
I was a senior leader.
And allll of the things that go along with every single one of the above.
In this episode, I reflect on the year that was and go through how I navigated all of it (and came out the other end in relatively one piece).
Thank you for listening in to The Unteachables Podcast this year, it’s been amazing to have you along for the ride!
Claire
Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!
JOIN MY FREE LIVE TRAINING: TURN YOUR TEACHING INTO A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MACHINE
RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:
- Shop all resources
- Join The Behaviour Club
- My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
- The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
- Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'
Connect with me:
- Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
- Check out my website
Next Episode
#45: Are you classroom managing like a fist, or a palm? A game-changing metaphor that will shape the way you approach behaviour in the heat of the moment
In today’s episode, I am going to be giving you a visual metaphor to approaching challenging classroom behaviour that can be a game changer.
This is something that I was taught way back in my first year of teaching and it has stuck with me ever since. It is one of the things that started to really build my own classroom management approach to what it is today.
I use it in my own classroom, I discuss this over the table with my own staff, I have presented this to different schools, I embed it in my online courses, and today, I will be sharing it with you.
As the first episode of 2024, I will also be giving you a bit of an overview of all of the exciting things happening here at The Unteachables Academy, including the release of my first ever book!
Have a question, comment, or just want to say hello? Drop us a text!
JOIN MY FREE LIVE TRAINING: TURN YOUR TEACHING INTO A CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT MACHINE
RESOURCES AND MORE SUPPORT:
- Shop all resources
- Join The Behaviour Club
- My book! It’s Never Just About the Behaviour: A holistic approach to classroom behaviour management
- The Low-Level Behaviour Bootcamp
- Free guide: 'Chats that Create Change'
Connect with me:
- Follow on Instagram @the.unteachables
- Check out my website
The Unteachables Podcast - #44: The one thing you need to do during the holidays to improve your classroom management in 2024.
Transcript
Welcome to the Unteachables podcast . I'm your host , claire , and I am absolutely no stranger to the challenges and let's face it , sometimes carnage of being a teacher . And if you found yourself listening with me , I'd say that you might know a bit about that as well , because being a teacher is friggin hard , and this podcast is dedicated to making you feel a hell of a lot l
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