When you start teaching, everything's a blur, but after a few months or a couple of years, you can suddenly realise that you're in a rut, without even knowing how you got there. You know what you're doing (or at least you think you do), you have a repertoire of lesson ideas, mountains of photocopies that you might use again one day, and just that nagging feeling that something isn't quite right. Somewhere along the way, after you lost the sense of panic, you also lost some of your drive and enthusiasm.
So how can you get them back? How can you stop the doldrums turning into your permanent teaching home?
Here are my top tips:
