December 2, 2008

The truth about teaching

Teachers are finding that although their training covered what they should be teaching it failed to inform them of the real world and how teaching in this real word is far removed from the world of teaching that they were taught at college.

Here are some of the finer points of teaching in this real world:

Classroom visitors can mean disaster
Boredom is the point of no return
The time it takes to explain something
Rewarding good students pays dividends
Meetings can be the end of a good career
It is down to the students
Time is never on your side
Political correctness is the end of the world
Getting students to turn up
It is all down to experience

However, there are always going to be a wide variance between different students, teachers and schools, so these points are going to be only a small clue as to what it is like to take up the position of teacher.

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