It generally feels like we’re failing at our careers but it’s not us; it’s the system around us. We’re doing a pretty good job actually, putting in as we are an entirely new pedagogy to replace one that has failed, and in that failure I include not just the grammar/translation approach but also TPRS.
If there’s anything that I could have back from my 40-year career it would be that one thing of taking my job too seriously and trying to teach kids who were literally unteachable. That’s the one thing I would change.
I would just relax a lot more.
It ain’t nothing but a thing.