Are you an Evolving Teacher? Are you an Evolving Leader? If not, why?
Welcome to the blog: The Evolving Teacher. Good teachers are often seen to be evolving in their practice - developing their craft and skill to enable others to learn from them - the evolving teacher. The reason I stated ‘good teachers’ is because there are teachers out there that are content in not evolving as teachers. These teachers are stuck in their ways. These teachers have lost their passion. Perhaps it is self-sabotage. Life isn’t great outside of the classroom and this impacts their life inside the classroom. The view that teaching is ‘just a job’ - it is not a ‘lifestyle’ - a ‘vocation’ or calling for a better word, if you will, can also linger in a persons mind. Whatever the reason may be, there are teachers out there that do not want to be teachers. It may be a fleeting concern or thought and it may also be a deeply rooted concern, that in turn, may leave a person to saying farewell to the profession. They do not want to teach. In other words: they do not wish to evolve...