Schools can be difficult for those who find interaction exhausting – but creating a ‘restorative niche’ can help Teaching is a performance; those of us who enact it every day are well aware of this. We smile on cue like seasoned actors; we storm and rant when needed,making our audience bawl or blush or stop in their tracks. We can beget a room explode with laughter or render it silent.
But although some teachers draw energy and enthusiasm from this, there are a huge number who leave the classroom drained and exhausted – not from the physiological effects of the long hours, and but the psychological effects of sustained human interaction.
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Source: theguardian.com