A mini rant, in hopes that this will help me: I have this irrational thought of anxiety that haunts me in my career. I’m a high school math teacher, and often times my brain decides to try and convince me that I’m not actually teaching my students…. That they’re just going out and learning the math by themselves. I know how ridiculous it would be for 120 fourteen/fifteen year olds to independently go out and learn math. But still.... you know?

This is my 7th year teaching, I’ve gotten excellent observation scores and I KNOW I do my job well…. But that “what if they’re just pretending to learn” thought wont leave me alone. 

Maybe in 7 more years it will :]