I would like to nominate Karen for Teacher of the Week in our group, because she just so much tells it like it is here, in a comment made last week:
…I’m willing to have a somewhat rough year and figure it’s a little like being a first-year teacher again. The goal is worth it: being able to teach in a way that really promotes acquisition for the majority of students, makes my teaching and grading simpler and more based on real communication skills, and is just better than textbook output drills and trying to force students to speak and write. Bleh! I won’t do that anymore….
