Do you find your days filled with tasks that you never seem to get to the end of? Things that feel important, or maybe urgent, but aren't really having an impact on actual student learning or your long term career development.
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I used to have this recurring nightmare where I'd be at the beach with my family and out of nowhere the waves would push right up over the sand and engulf everything - picnic blanket, kai and kids!
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Finding balance is much more a matter of aligning all the important aspects of you as a whole person. When you do this you'll be better able to keep the hoha aspects of the job in perspective - they don't matter enough to be sapping your joy!
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Those are the footsteps I want to walk in. Not the deep and complicated calculus stuff so much, but the intense curiosity that drives you to seek answers and create solutions.
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My message to kaiako, triggered by an American educator’s blog post, is this: don’t discount the ongoing evolution of your teaching practice because it’s hard. It is hard. But our mokopuna deserve no less than your best.
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I’ve long felt that the way in which we train our kaiako, and support their ongoing professional development is missing something.
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