Becky Boer

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Attitude

Teaching

When Those Who Can Maybe Shouldn’t (How Negative Teachers Bring Us All Down)

I am tired of teachers who complain about their jobs. I get it. Being a teacher is really, really hard. It’s one of the few jobs where the better you are, the harder it is. After all, it’d be easy to be one of those teachers who just sits behind a desk all day while his or her kids do worksheets. Boring, maybe, but easy. It’s a lot harder when you’re invested in your kids, when you spend evenings making crafts and coming up with lessons, when you spend nights staring at your ceiling, not  ...

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Teaching

Positivity

I’m trying to embrace something new this year: positivity. I think that I’m generally a glass-half-full kind of person. As a matter of fact, I know I am. I’m the annoying person who’s always telling others to “look on the bright side! It can’t be that bad! Keep your chin up!” and so on. But I also know that when I’m around negative people, I get negative. Very, very easily. All it takes it one sentence for me to completely switch my view on  ...

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