And your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing: Crime and Punishment
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one of the best pieces of advice I can give you if you want to be an elementary school teacher is to always validate it every time a kid says something you’re doing in class is hard
I feel like often the first instinct when a kid is frustrated by something difficult is to reassure them by saying “it’s not hard, you can do it!” but that almost always has the opposite of the intended effect
What I say instead is “you’re right, this is really hard, and that’s okay. We can do hard things, and I’m here to give you help if you need it.”
Telling someone that something isn’t hard doesn’t magically make it easy, but listening and taking their worries seriously absolutely makes the hard thing more manageable
Creating a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset! Teaching kids that it is good to do things that are hard because that is how you learn and get better, not subconsciously imply that “everything you do in school should be easy and if it’s hard, it means that you’re not as smart as everyone else who thinks it is easy.”
