Like everyone else, I found this article interesting. I think the first section of the article was the most important. This section slyly told observers not to look through harsh eyes. It reminded us that teaching, in fact, is naturally unperfect. Teachers must rush, finesse, and think on their feet constantly in order to preserve a well humming classroom. It shocked me to read that (possibly) an average school day has 1,000+ interactions between one teacher and his students.
As students we are usually distanced from day-to-day, real teaching. It would be easy of us to sit in the back of a classroom and nit-pick the environment. 'Oh, the teacher doesn't know what year that happened without looking it up,' or, 'Oh, she isn't calling on the student who needs help.' Because we are going over and over the right things to do, we lose track of the real things to do. I'm glad this article has (re)grounded me so the next time I'm in a classroom I'll have appreciative perspective.
(Luckily, I hadn't had an opportunity to be so judgmental yet, as our observations as Bryan Hill at MLK Jr. Elementary School makes his job look easy and relatively flaw-free.)
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