I'm sure we have all lost sleep at night over a pending school issue.... Thought this would be a fun article for you to read. Please feel free to comment on what your nightmare was!
“Even your worst
nightmares are just your brain doing its thing to help you become a better
teacher,” says Florida teacher Roxanna Elden in this Educational Horizons article. Here are her interpretations of some
recurring teacher nightmares:
• You come to school in a bathrobe, your
pajamas, or the clothes you went out in last night. Interpretation: feeling
vulnerable, inadequate, afraid of being unprepared.
• You are already running late and then get
lost on your way to school. Interpretation: perhaps a desire to avoid
responsibility, or perhaps just fear of being late.
• Your subject or grade level has been changed
at the last minute. Interpretation: fear of wasting all that preparation you’ve
done for your classes due to capricious administrators.
• Students come to your house and start
helping themselves to bowls of cereal from your kitchen cabinets while you think
of ways to keep them busy. Interpretation: you think about your students
all the time.
• You are in a physical fight with a student,
fellow teacher, or administrator. Interpretation: fight dreams express a
desire to defend your honor, values, or personal space. They may also reveal
anger, frustration, or a genuine desire to hurt the person in question.
• Your classroom is in the cafeteria, an open
field, or an irregularly shaped room in which you can’t see all your students
and they can’t hear anything you say. Interpretation: preparing oneself for
the worst possible teaching scenario.
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