Submitted by s hurley (not verified) on March 5, 2008 - 12:06.
I enjoyed reading this post very much; a great deal of what you have said resonates with my own learning as a teacher.
One comment about the "teaching self" that we carry each day with us into the classroom. The teacher that we want to be, and the teacher we suspect that others want us to be represent domains that, I believe, often collide...at the very least they intersect. As I become more proficient at what I do (and it has been a 25 year journey to this point), I find myself more comfortable in standing firmly in the domain of "the teacher I want to be." Not always easy, but always ultimately rewarding!
Our teaching selves
Submitted by s hurley (not verified) on March 5, 2008 - 12:06.
I enjoyed reading this post very much; a great deal of what you have said resonates with my own learning as a teacher.
One comment about the "teaching self" that we carry each day with us into the classroom. The teacher that we want to be, and the teacher we suspect that others want us to be represent domains that, I believe, often collide...at the very least they intersect. As I become more proficient at what I do (and it has been a 25 year journey to this point), I find myself more comfortable in standing firmly in the domain of "the teacher I want to be." Not always easy, but always ultimately rewarding!
Stephen Hurley