As we get closer to the end of the school year, teachers know that means testing season. As teachers, we need to keep in mind what our students have gone through this school year. We know that our students generally stress over taking the end of the year tests but this year there are possibly many outside factors that will influence how well our students do.
Please remember to give grace. Our students go through many things that we are not aware. In this past year, I have known someone that has been ill with COVID. I have friends that have had loved ones die from COVID. How many times do the news media show pictures of closed stores and restaurants and that means that those people are now unemployed. In Texas, we have had the winter storms, which brought another stress into our lives but especially our students’ lives. We as the teachers need to give grace. We are sometimes the only stability for our students.
No matter how our students score on a one-day test remember that everyone is doing the best that they can. In addition, that definitely includes you the teachers. Everything that our students are going through you are going through as well but you have your home family and your school family. You have to have double the worry, patience, courage and kindness.
I appreciate all that you do every day. Some days may be harder than others but you soldier on because there are people counting on you. You help our students every day by encouraging then, building their confidence, giving them stability that they may not have anywhere else and as always you are giving them pencils, and helping them find whatever they lost that day.
Thank You.
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