I stumbled upon this article this morning... it is a very interesting read! As a "veteran" (this amuses me, I feel like I just started) teacher I can not stress enough stretching my own continuous education and refining of the craft of teaching. Even after all these years there should not be boundaries, but boundless energy and exploration to keep it relevant and engaging! Keeping it relevant really relies in huge part on KNOWING your students...Here is a particularly insightful excerpt form the article....
....Thus teaching is a deeply social and emotional activity. You have to know your students and be able to read them quickly, and from that reading make decisions to slow down or speed up, stay with a point or return to it later, connect one student’s comment to another’s. Simultaneously, you are assessing on the fly Susie’s silence, Pedro’s slump, Janelle’s uncharacteristic aggressiveness. Students are, to varying degrees, also learning from each other, learning all kinds of things, from how to carry oneself to how to multiply mixed numbers. How teachers draw on this dynamic interaction varies depending on their personal style, the way they organize their rooms, and so on—but it is an ever-present part of the work they do....
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/12/05/why-educating-the-educators-is-complex/
Worth the read...
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