Teaching through Emotions: psychological strategies and resources for educators

Ever feel like you’re doing all the work in a co-teaching setup? Rachel, a passionate social studies teacher, struggles with Edmund’s “old-school” ways. His fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants approach leaves Rachel overcompensating and bubbling with resentment. What can she do to right the balance?Listen now on **Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or **wherever you get your podcasts.We discuss:* Co-Dependency: Why fitting together too perfectly can actually create an unhealthy dynamic that prevents professional growth* Relational Patterns: Four different maladaptive relational patterns teachers can fall into* Understanding Grandiosity: What “negative grandiosity” means (and what “positive grandiosity” means. Hint: It’s not good)* The Relational Signal: Why resentment isn’t a “bad emotion” to be suppressed, but a data point warning you about imbalance* The Consequence: How “filling the void” actually prevents your partner from ever stepping up, letting them remain passive while you burn outGot a story to share? Team-teaching adds a layer of work to an already difficult job. When it’s not going well, it can be debilitating. If you’re grappling with a tricky team-teaching situation, leave me a voicemail at (413) 239-4158 and we might feature your perspective in a future episode!Support the Show: If this conversation resonated, please consider leaving a rating or review on your podcast app. Your feedback helps others find us.Get full access to the community: [www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe]CreditsFounder and Host: Betsy BurrisProducer: Jullian Androkae of PodVisionMusic: Thom Burris/Jabbering TroutTeaching through Emotions is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe

It’s mid-terms. Students are panicked; they need extra help. If you’re a college instructor, you open up more office hours so you can assuage students’ anxiety. Students sign up but don’t show up. GRRRRRRR!!!This episode features Robin, an extremely busy professor (like most teachers!) who got really mad when some students blew off the appointments they (voluntarily) signed up for. And didn’t contact her to explain why! How should she deal with this blatant inconsiderateness? What could she do with her insistent anger and disappointment? How did her Teacher Support Group help her turn it around?Listen now on **Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or **wherever you get your podcasts.We discuss:* The Trigger: Identifying exactly which boundary or value was poked when a student rolled their eyes or ignored an assignment* The Illusion of Authority: Understanding that demanding respect drives it away and how composure shifts the power dynamic in your favor* Reality Check: Remembering that student behavior is not an attack against your character* Filtering the Emotions: How to quiet the internal noise and swirl of emotions to find the real issueGot a story to share? If you’re feeling terrible about yourself because of stuff your students are doing (or not doing), I’d love to hear about it. Leave me a voicemail at (413) 239-4158 and we might feature your perspective in a future episode!Support the Show: If this conversation resonated, please consider leaving a rating or review on your podcast app. Your feedback helps others find us.Get full access to the community: [www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe]CreditsFounder and Host: Betsy BurrisProducer: Jullian Androkae of PodVisionMusic: Thom Burris/Jabbering TroutTeaching through Emotions is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe

COVID was extremely, unusually, horribly difficult for most if not all teachers. Jeremy, a math teacher, was no exception. He was pretty sure he could not teach under COVID conditions — until he figured out how to make his classes fun even when they were fully remote. Of course, COVID is behind us now (thank goodness). But teachers can still feel deeply disconnected from their students.Listen now on **Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or **wherever you get your podcasts.We discuss:* The Confidence Reset: Strategies for silencing the inner critic and getting over self-doubt* Self-Awareness: Understanding that you don’t have to be perfect at every teaching style: knowing your weaknesses and strengths* Gamification: Practical ways to break the monotony in class, in person or remotely* The Relationships: The importance of relationships — between teacher and students, between student and student, and between students and the contentGot a story to share? We’re not living through a pandemic anymore, but we are seeing behaviors in classrooms that were rare pre-COVID. If you have a knotty problem you’d like to get some relief from, leave me a voicemail at (413) 239-4158 and we might feature your perspective in a future episode!Support the Show: If this conversation resonated, please consider leaving a rating or review on your podcast app. Your feedback helps others find us.Get full access to the community: [www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe]CreditsFounder and Host: Betsy BurrisProducer: Jullian Androkae of PodVisionMusic: Thom Burris/Jabbering TroutTeaching through Emotions is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe

Summer, a physics teacher known for her big heart, hits a wall. One of her students, Clarisse, is just not cooperating, and Summer's instinctual approach isn't working. In this episode, we unpack how Summer, with her Teacher Support Group, came up with an entirely new approach to dissolving a classic power struggle with a resistant student.Listen now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.We discuss:The Power of Neutrality: How “conflict statements” can dissolve student resistancePerspective Shifting: A super-helpful psychodynamic trick called “making the flip”Boundaries: Defining where your Garden (your internal peace and professional responsibilities) ends and the student’s Garden (their choices and emotions) beginsTeaching as Research: Observing a blow-up as data collection. What triggered the student? What triggered you?External LinksMartha Stark on resistanceConflict StatementsGot a story to share? Leave me a voicemail at (413) 239-4158 and we might feature your perspective in a future episode!Support the Show: If this conversation resonated, please consider leaving a rating or review on your podcast app. Your feedback helps others find us.Get full access to the community: [www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe]CreditsFounder and Host: Betsy BurrisProducer: Jullian Androkae of PodVisionMusic: Thom Burris/Jabbering Trout This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.teachingthroughemotions.com/subscribe