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When Serving Your Students Means Serving Yourself [Ep. 13]
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What does it look like when you serve your students well? Is it well-planned, engaging lessons? Opportunities for students to practice with meaningful resources? Talking through questions and challenges both in and out of the classroom?
It's definitely all of these and more. But at what cost?
One of my core value statements in serving you is: Service to students and self must be balanced. This is not an easy thing to do!
While you're grateful for your role as an instructor in ELT, you're also exhausted and frustrated at times. Towards the end of a semester you may even find yourself less motivated and more forgetful.
These are not the conditions for serving your students well.
In today's episode I'm talking about the reason you need breaks – and not just the two-week holiday kind. Research shows that you need regular breaks for your mind and body.
After listening, I challenge you to make a conscious effort to find ways you can serve yourself so that service to your students remains valuable and uninterrupted.
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