Home : 2002 : April : 18
Your question about new teachers...
By Not 'So True', but will take s
|
|
Doesn't take much for a new teacher to earn my respect. He or she just needs to work hard, inject a little new enthusiasm into the school and be ready and willing to learn from others in the department -- new and old. Occasionally,| we do get one who is...well, a little too eager to believe that whatever strategies/style he/she learned in uni is the 'right' and only way to do things, and who is quick to judge other teachers who may do things differently before he/she has really learned the ropes. For example, I recently overheard a probationary teacher criticizing a soon-to-be-retired teacher (who has given | |
her life to the school) for using a classroom management style that, while effective, is out of vogue with the academics who are currently writing text books. This happens in all professions, I'm sure, and usually the person has the best motives at heart -- a combination of enthuasiasm and pride and naivete about the realities of the job. Usually passes, but not always. This may be what 'So True' was trying to get at.
BACK
The ProTeacher Collection - All rights reserved
For individual use only. Do not copy, reproduce or transmit.
Copyright © 1998-2008 ProTeacher®
Visit our ProTeacher Community
What people are currently discussing in the ProTeacher Community:
|
|
