Different Ways A Teacher Can Spend Summer Vacation

Summer time! This is the moment that we teachers can find an ample time to enjoy and relax. After those ten months of hard work inside the classroom to facilitate quality learning for our dear students, is it not just fair to spend quality time for ourselves and love ones?  Definitely, you will agree to me that there are actually many ways to spend our summer vacation. And I bet that you are always certain with your plans on how you would like to spend and enjoy it. But still here is my list of some productive and revitalizing activities that you may consider to include in your own summer vacation plan.

Productive Activities

These are activities that can help you improve your financial situation or enhance your professional credibility to qualify for promotion and salary increase.   

• Enroll for some units in your chosen Graduate School
• Volunteer to become a summer class teacher
• Attend training and career-enhancement seminars
• Participate in some community service activities
• Write work text or module in preparation for the next school year
• Apply for a part-time job

Doing some of these productive activities may create an impression among your colleagues and friends that you are ambitious, self-absorbed and cruel to yourself. But, if you believe that it is very important for your short-term or long-term plan to somehow spend your vacation inside the school again or another workplace, then stick to your plans, later they will realize the things that you value the most and they will just support you with your goals.

Revitalizing Activities 

These are activities that help you rejuvenate and charge your mind, body and spirit for the next school year. Do not feel guilty to indulge and pamper yourself with some revitalizing activities listed here. Remember an old adage by Bertrand Russell that says, “The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”

• Go out of town with your colleagues, friends and loved ones.
•  Spend an overnight in your favorite resort or beach
• Visit a spa salon
• Set a date or small reunions with your high school or college friends
• Watch movies
• Reorganize your home office and/or faculty office and stuffs
• Continue your hobbies (painting, blogging, playing musical instrument, reading books, etc.)

So whatever it is that you are planning with your summer vacation, whether you like it to be productive or revitalizing, or both, get to enjoy it and make the most out of it. Happy Summer!