As the school year is approaching it is easy to start wishing time away.
- It is easy to spend less time recognizing appropriate behavior.
- It is easy to spend more time sitting at the teacher’s desk.
- It is easy to leave a shorter report for the permanent teacher.
- It is easy to start showing movies instead of teaching.
- It is easy to let the last five minutes go without a learning activity.
- It is easy to show up a little later to teaching assignments.
- It is easy to complain about how slowly the school days drag on.
But you were never one to take the easy way out, were you? What do you do to keep up your enthusiasm through the end of the school year? What have you seen other teachers do to keep a zeal for teaching?