My Teacher Regrets

𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐈 𝐡𝐚𝐝 𝐈 𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐧𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞. 🥺🥺🥺😰😰😓

Teaching is a “passionate” career and like most teachers l threw myself into it withholding nothing.

After over 8 years in the educational sector; from the classroom to management and now in the EdTech space, here are a few regrets l have:

👉🏼🥺I regret buying into the lie that teaching is a second class profession. Often times, when l would introduce myself as a teacher, l would feel less inside. This affected my confidence and the way l projected myself so l missed out on a lot of opportunities.

👉🏼🥺I regret overworking myself and neglecting my health. I recall instances where l would stay late into the night at school grading papers or doing one administrative responsibility or the other. Apart my health suffering, my home also suffered. Even while sick, l still was expected to show up at work and l did. Looking back now, l regret not creating work boundaries and going on vacations.

👉🏼🥺I regret taking rubbish! What l mean by that is that l didn’t give attention to my mental health. I allowed myself be walked over, berated and insulted just for the sake of a job. I internalized those hurtful words and it showed up in my performance and self perception. I wished l had left that toxic space sooner than l did.

👉🏼🥺l regret not giving attention to continuous professional development. I gave all my time to my job and there was none left for my personal development. Oftentimes teachers make this mistake and when or if they get fired or leave their job, they find themselves ill equipped to seize other opportunities that present themselves.

Now this is where l come in.

𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙝𝙤𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙚𝙡𝙥 𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙪𝙥 𝙨𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙢𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙫𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖𝙙𝙫𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙢𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙨𝙚 𝙤𝙥𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙪𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙖𝙫𝙖𝙞𝙡𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙚 𝙤𝙣𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙨𝙤 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙙𝙤𝙣’𝙩 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙨 𝙡 𝙝𝙖𝙙.

𝙈𝙮 𝙣𝙖𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 Myra Samuelson 𝙖𝙣𝙙 I’𝙢 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙞𝙜𝙞𝙩𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙧.

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