Everyone has had a teacher who seemed misplaced in a classroom. Honestly, who hasn't asked the question "what possessed that person to teach". This is the instructor who is irritable and seems to hate children, high schoolers, college students, enter pupil here. Sometimes they seem lazy and disassociated, making you assume they could never have survived in a work environment.
I have developed a different theory about those educators who hate or ignore their students. They are sick. Sick of stupid questions asked by students too lazy to look up the answer on the course web site or in the book, sick of being asked the same question over and over and over again, sick of showing up to study sessions and lab hours and having no one show up. It is a thankless job, being a teacher.
If you or someone close to you has considered, may consider, or is considering teaching as a vocation, I strongly recommend student teaching first. I do not feel that it is the profession for me, as I am writing this after spending 75 minutes of a 2hr study session reviewing the course notes and waiting for anyone in the class to show up. No one has, and I have the feeling that no one will.
This seems an appropriate statement, that I am beset by the ironies of my life. I heard it once in a film or read it in a book. The sort of statement made by a tragic anti-hero or an utterly unfortunate person, and though I am neither, I found the idea profound.
Ash
Here's to Paint Shop Pro
Hugo
The monster under my bed
About Me
- Ash
- I am unique and common in my own ways. We all suffer at the hands of fate and history, but I feel that it is what we do with our lot that defines us. Every one is subject to the flaws of their society, and I am no exception. In a world of stereotypes, I suppose I would be the recluse. I am not an unkind or unsympathetic person, not overly introspective (or so I'd like to think). I am a female born to a lower-middleclass family in a large city. Never was I a social butterfly of any sort, and I was home schooled until the end of middle school when I was abruptly tossed into a rural public school system. It is healthy to draw your own conclusions.
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