Teacher Tips: Responding to Criticism (Because It's Inevitable)

Whether it comes from parents, students, counselors, or administrators, as a teacher, you will inevitably hear criticism about the decisions you make in your classroom.  Depending on who is doing the criticizing and how that criticism is delivered, it can be really hard to hear and we often feel our fight or flight response kick in. Before making any decisions, let's take a breath. We’re talking about strategies we’ve found work for us whenever we respond to criticism as well as what ultimately influences our decision to compromise or stand our ground.

Here's what else we've got on and around this topic:

Blog Post: Teacher Life: Building Professional Relationships at Work because feeling like someone's looking out for you (even in the smallest of ways) can make a big difference!

Blog Post: You Will Make Mistakes. Apologize and Learn from Them. Sometimes, and we don't like to admit this, we get it wrong. The criticism is merited. Here's one example of how we handled it.

Podcast Episode: Why We Left the Classroom because sometimes you have to make really hard decisions.

YouTube Video: How to Know: It's Time to Go because you can't fight forever. 

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