Pre-vacation Blues

We’ve all experienced it. It’s a month before summer vacation and you’ve had an uncharacteristically tense disagreement with your boss. Your students seem to be rowdier than normal. Even your good students are acting out of character. Your patience is thinner than it usually is. Everyone seems to be acting out of the ordinary. This phenomenon is what I call pre-vacation blues. How do you avoid it? The first step to solving a problem is recognizing that it exists. Talk to your students, your boss, and your colleagues about it. Encourage them to recognize this sensitive time period, and work together to get through it with no incident.