Teachers are cemented in their practice!
Reflecting on my almost 5 full years teaching, I have come to realize that it is so easy to become cemented. Teaching is already demanding and to have to find ways to better your practice seems like the sort of thing that your are not paid enough to commit too. So...it's easier to just go through the motions every single day and soon as the last class is over, go home to do it all over again the next day. I know, I know! While so many of us, are not necessarily saying or agreeing to that, many of us are guilty of this behavior just by what our lesson plans look like and what type of work we give our students. My first couple of years, I'd have to say were just like this. I had become cemented in my practice. I began to reach this point in my career where the thing I actually enjoyed doing, wasn't enjoyable; it was routine, I felt like a robot. I came into work every morning, made my copies if I was early enough, had the warm up ready to go, got through the lesson and the...
