233: Meeting the Core Human Needs of a Teacher

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast

Jennifer Gonzalez

Education, Teaching, Instruction, Classroommanagement, Educationreform

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2024

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Teaching is intense, vulnerable work that brings up a range of emotions all day, every day. If we really want to help teachers thrive, we need to go beyond the technical parts of the job and look at how our core human needs show up in this work. In this episode, author and instructional coach Elena Aguilar joins me to explore what it looks like when a teacher's needs for belonging, autonomy, competence, self-esteem, trust, and purpose are not being met, and what can be done to address that.

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For links to Elena's book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching, visit cultofpedagogy.com/pod and choose episode 233.

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0:00.0	This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 233 of the cult of pedagogy podcast.
0:06.0	In this episode, we're going to talk about how to help teachers by meeting their core human needs. Teaching is.
0:14.0	Teaching is intense.
0:17.0	Teaching is intense vulnerable work.
0:27.0	Every single day, teachers are put in situations where their confidence is tested,
0:31.0	where they make mistakes, where the people they serve or their peers or their
0:35.5	mentors can say and do things that wound them to their core.
0:40.5	Every teacher shows up with their own histories and
0:43.0	insecurities and flaws.
0:45.0	It can be lonely, it can be overwhelming,
0:48.0	on some days it feels impossible.
0:51.0	We can look at student data and try new instructional strategies all day long,
0:56.7	but until we learn to navigate all of these complex feelings, the work of improving our teaching
1:02.0	will always be limited at best, and anyone who wants to help teachers get better needs to know that.
1:09.0	One person who definitely knows that is Elena Agalar, who has been
1:13.6	been coaching teachers for two decades and has written
1:16.6	eight highly acclaimed books all centered on helping teachers grow.
1:20.6	Her newest book, A Rise, The Art of Transformational Coaching, was written to replace 2013's
1:28.0	The Art of Coaching, which is being taken out of circulation now that the new book is published. While the new book contains
1:34.6	some elements of the original, this one takes a much more humanistic approach.
1:39.4	Agilar explains her motivation here.
1:43.0	Quote, there were certain things that I didn't go into as deeply as I wanted.
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