😩 Are you tired and frustrated with your current problem-solving strategy? 😡
I don't think that I learned many problem-solving skills while I attended school as a student. When I became a teacher, I very quickly found out that there are problems that arise on a daily basis. If you didn't have a strategy in place to overcome the obstacles, you would soon be overwhelmed with unresolved issues.
Here are some things that hindered me ❌ and mindset shifts ✅ that helped me:
❌Having assumptions
✅ Have an open mind (I don't have all the answers)
❌Thinking everyone had to learn as I learn
✅ Everyone learns and understands a little differently from the people around them
❌Thinking that all work/learning will be a drag
✅ Work/learning can be fun and fulfilling
❌ Focusing too much time on the problem instead of the solution
✅ “Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions.” -Tony Robbins
Having assumptions about how the school year was going to happen was the worst thing that I did for myself. So many problems could've been solved in a short amount of time if I would have approached them from another angle.
It turned out that removing myself and the students from a stressful situation had overwhelming benefits. Yes, we needed to focus and get our daily dose of schoolwork done for the day, but why not discuss the questions in class instead of having them write answers on a sheet of paper? I assumed that everyone should learn in a similar way that I did. If I learned that way, why couldn't my students?#wmvisual