It's not that I'm not a good teacher - all of my mentors have been really impressed with the way I've progressed - it's just that I feel the job is sapping all of my joy. I'm training to teach secondary English. I thought that I'd be teaching kids to love books but it seems that my job is more crowd control and literacy. I'm just so tired all the time and the thought of going back makes me feel ill. I don't hate teaching - I enjoyed my first placement, and although I was aware that there was loads of crap to go with it, I did like the actual lessons. Now though, it just seems to bleak and I don't want to go back at all.
Is this normal? Should I carry on? Did anyone else feel like this> Please give me some advice.
Cheers!
2007-01-20
21:51:17
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sallybowles
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