Teaching in Today's Confusing World: Teacher Trauma, the Pandemic and Becoming Resilient with Lindsey Acton

Nobody likes to talk about how little teachers are paid, or how hard it is to work with different types of students and learners. We don't want to talk about how education keeps experiencing budget cut after budget cut, reversing policy to include outdated education and ways of thinking. Nobody wants to talk about teachers' trauma, and how teachers are leaving the workforce at an alarming rate. And most importantly, nobody wants to talk about how teachers are forced to work as teachers, nurses, janitors, counsellors, friends, etc. to dozens of students, and are given zero support of their own. No, we definitely do not want to talk about that.

In today's episode, teacher Lindsey Acton shares her experience in the teaching world and the events that inspired her to write her book. Having experienced a traumatic event with a student in her first year of teaching, Lindsey's teaching career has been indicative of what she believes is a universal teaching experience. We talk about hard to handle student, mental illness, self-care, therapy and so much more.

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