Purpose

As a teacher, mom, and all-around somebody who wants to be better, I created a space for me to reflect, (possibly) rant, and rave about my world, my home and my space.

Saturday, April 24, 2010

Niggling Worries, Whining, and Wondering

I work in a tiny school where professional development is usually done online or even more rarely, on-site. I recently joined my area's local chapter of the National Writing Project where I am continually inspired to do more, and do it better than I ever did before. As with any source, application, or workshop that I find to be wonderful, I try to share it and encourage my colleagues to do the same. The usual response is that they are far too busy.
I get it, duh, we all are. I am a relatively new teacher (my 4th year full-time) and I'm frightened by the prospect of being too busy to learn new things.

Is that what happens when you have been teaching for a while?
Do you know so much that you can't learn anything new?
Are you too busy knowing what you know and doing it?

"If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way." Mark Twain

"Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching." Oscar Wilde


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