This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Friday, December 11, 2009
I still have a lot to learn!
What I have learned as an NTI student is that I still have a lot to learn. Dr. M came to visit me on Thursday and it is amazing the stuff that he saw in my class. You know you think you have started to get it all together and then just one evaluation makes you feel like you have never been a teacher at all. Dr. M was great to me. Like I said before, he like a loving father that in one breath praises you and in the next tells you of all the mistakes you have made. I have learned through NTI that I need to never stop growing and learning as a teacher. Just because I may think I have it all together doesn't mean I do. I will say that I need this break from NTI and from the students. I love both, but absence always makes the heart grow fonder. Thanks again Dr. M for caring enough about us to tell us the truth.
I am in total agreement here. I like to think I am realistic when it comes to judging my own intelligence. But when it comes to teaching, there are many times that I feel like a world class idiot. Sometimes it takes an outside source to convince me that I am doing a good job. My supervisor is good at coming by and lending an encouraging word now and then (see my blog on administrators). But once again, I believe that when it comes to teaching, I have a lot to learn.
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