And one more, don\u2019t be this teacher who stops learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be the one who when thinking of yourself 5 years ago can proudly say, \u2018I\u2019ve come a long way.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have this new hobby. I torture myself by visiting teachers\u2019 fb groups, I read terrible things they write and I collect gems for my next workshop, \u201cDon\u2019t be this teacher\u201d! No joke. It sounds presumptuous but honestly, I\u2019m seriously fed up with the nonsense I read. Not only because I read a bunch of unscientific claims about language teaching but mainly, primarily and painfully because I read a bunch of antipedagogical claims. To put it simply, I read lines from teachers who dislike their job. Or who dislike children. Or even, in some nightmarish cases, teachers who hate children. I need to shout out loud: Don\u2019t be this teacher! If for some random reason and by some unexpected stroke of luck, you became a language teacher but you wanted to become a police officer or a tax collector or zookeeper or whatever else, please don\u2019t taint my job with your presence. I need around me colleagues whose heart is filled with warmth every time they enter the classroom, I need to share with colleagues who can\u2019t wait to try out their next idea with their students, I need to be surrounded by inspired, qualified, obsessed-with-learning teachers. You, who writes things like, \u201cis my student mentally retarded and cannot get the difference between Present Simple and Present Continuous?\u201d, you, you are not my colleague. You should get yourself another job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a teaser, now, before the new workshop I\u2019m preparing, don\u2019t be this teacher:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And one more, don\u2019t be this teacher who stops learning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Be the one who when thinking of yourself 5 years ago can proudly say, \u2018I\u2019ve come a long way.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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