"You have to paddle really hard in the beginning, not so you can rest on your oars, but so that you can get down to real teaching and learning as soon as possible and actually get somewhere with your kids..."Emily Wiley's commentary yesterday on All Things Considered, heard locally on WVXU and other stations...
She doesn't do a perfect job describing September (or August for lots of us) for teachers, but it's pretty close.
3 comments:
wonderful...really hits me because having those thoughts and not speaking my student's language has me wondering how that is going to pan out past september:-)
Teaching's a weird job...so very few jobs involve so little control (as our raw materials are actual people - and ones who often don't want to be molded) or such a drastic start/finish cycle...
We go from totally off - all summer long - to instantly and emphatically on - trying to set the tone for an entire year in the hopes that we can accomplish something during the course of the year.
It's a hard thing for people to understand if they're not in the biz.
well said...in any language:-)
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