I know for me personally I can get so frustrated when I don't see my students making progress. It also hurts even more, when I know a student doesn't really want to come to speech and therefore doesn't really put forth any effort.
What am I doing wrong? I thought I was a fun speech teacher. Why can't I reach this child?
A few months went by and I had forgotten about the joy jar. Then my principal sent an email with this video to all of the staff.
What an amazing speech!! I was once ago inspired and finally created the joy jar!!
I realized like Dalton says in his speech, you may not reach every student, but you will reach at least one!!! Actually, I am sure you will probably reach most! You can't let those small (sometimes big) negative moments in teaching ruin the positives ones. Don't let them steal from you that passion that you once had. Never lose your joy!
Here are some of the items I have in my joy jar at work.
The joy jar doesn't have to be just for teachers either. It can be for whatever profession you are in. I'm sure that there are many people out there who, when they first started their job had a huge passion for what they do, but now after many hard times, have probably lost some of that joy. Let's encourage them to get it back and remember all the good things about what they do!
Many Blessings,
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