OH wow....my earlier post got 'removed'!!! Apparently there were some "conflicting issues"! HUH....maybe the contents were too much for it to handle :)
I was saying my new year entry is 2 weeks late and it is now 13th of January 2011! The 2nd week of school is almost over and I am looking at my first observation in 2 weeks time. An important one as I am due for confirmation. Dratz. The one thing I really hate about teaching is this observation thingy!!! When I had to arrange a time with my HOD earlier on, I felt this immense sian-ness. I know it is to ensure quality of teachers and to have some form of appraisal but I just hate it! Period.
Sometimes I feel teachers go through this routine of having to 'put up a show'. As much as it sounds cynical, but i am beginning to think it is true. I find myself fast-forwarding to year 2013, when I'm no longer bonded and I imagine all the many other possibilities after teaching. While I am thankful I have a pretty healthy school environment to work in, I know it takes more than that to keep one in teaching. I guess my journey of discovering what teaching is all about has just begun.
For now, I have to put aside the cynicism before it eats me up slowly! I am glad I can still say that I am in the right place for this season at least. At the end of it, I hope to say that I have fulfilled part of my destiny for the time I am placed wherever I am now.
I was saying my new year entry is 2 weeks late and it is now 13th of January 2011! The 2nd week of school is almost over and I am looking at my first observation in 2 weeks time. An important one as I am due for confirmation. Dratz. The one thing I really hate about teaching is this observation thingy!!! When I had to arrange a time with my HOD earlier on, I felt this immense sian-ness. I know it is to ensure quality of teachers and to have some form of appraisal but I just hate it! Period.
Sometimes I feel teachers go through this routine of having to 'put up a show'. As much as it sounds cynical, but i am beginning to think it is true. I find myself fast-forwarding to year 2013, when I'm no longer bonded and I imagine all the many other possibilities after teaching. While I am thankful I have a pretty healthy school environment to work in, I know it takes more than that to keep one in teaching. I guess my journey of discovering what teaching is all about has just begun.
For now, I have to put aside the cynicism before it eats me up slowly! I am glad I can still say that I am in the right place for this season at least. At the end of it, I hope to say that I have fulfilled part of my destiny for the time I am placed wherever I am now.
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