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Recovering from a bad school experience can take years not weeks. There is mental baggage that teachers carry with them that no one can see or thinks to ask about. 2/3 jobs down the line it can still be hovering in someone's head. That isn't that persons fault - at all!
This is the problem, so much is swept under the carpet, especially with regards to toxic work places, leaders, experiences. People are left to pick up the pieces afterwards and its sometimes as if it never happened! but it left such a lasting imprint on them.
After the events, it's so easy for that teacher to think they are the abnormal one for not being able to recover quickly and bounce back to "normality". All their former colleagues - seemingly fine, a wall of "you were the problem".
They might feel like the failure. Even some of thee best teachers, leaders and professionals, reduced to ruins - questioning their own selves. Forgetting everything they'd done and achieved before they had "that" experience.
What can we do about this:
1. awareness - btw colleagues.
2. school exposure - govt/OFSTED should do something about this, instead of rating awful environments for teachers "outstanding".
3. Expectations on ourselves - not expecting miracles of ourselves to recover fast.
1. awareness - btw colleagues.
2. school exposure - govt/OFSTED should do something about this, instead of rating awful environments for teachers "outstanding".
3. Expectations on ourselves - not expecting miracles of ourselves to recover fast.
