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2 thoughts on “Our Jobs Are Simpler Than We Think”
“We slowly rid ourselves of the old ideas of what a teacher even is, how a teacher behaves in class…”
Every once in awhile I get this feeling that my job doesn’t have to be as hard and exhausting as I make it to be-but it’s not all the time, only sometimes. Not once did becoming a classrooom teacher cross my mind as a undergraduate or even graduate student-I had no interest in being “a teacher.” All these papers I hand out-most of it is crap. This is the first year I’ve taught high school Spanish in a classroom-it’s a wonderful school. BUT I’ve gotten it into my head that now I have to teach grammar…and then I realize that my students understand me better when I speak to them in slow comprehensible Spanish than when I speak in English about Spanish grammar. I can see it in their eyes. So now what? What about those few students who LOVE grammar? I have 3 of them. I think they’ll survive without it.
Annemarie tell those three kids that they will get plenty of grammar in college and if they really want it now you can give it to them as extra work but that you must first and foremost align your instruction with the research. Grab a few articles from the Primers link above to support your position. They’ll understand.