Bragging

Ok, I’m going to brag for five minutes, because this is really the only place I can do it without insulting colleagues.

For the last few months I’ve wondered if people were kind of blowing smoke up my behind, telling me how good I am for a first year teacher. But in our latest class we had to review each other’s class videos utilizing some specific questioning techniques. I thought mine was ok. Not fantastic necessarily, but certainly good enough to submit. 

Then I watched some of my colleague’s videos. Some were at least as good as mine, if not better, but those were certainly in the minority. Most were either so full of student misbehavior I couldn’t tell if they were using the technique. Others were obviously staged with just a few students.

Maybe I DO need to cut myself a little slack and believe my advisor when she says things like “this is very high level feedback, so we can push you to the next level.”

Now, that’s not to say I’m the best teacher that has ever lived or that I can’t get better. Shit, I know I still have leaps and bounds to go. I kind of feel like I will always feel that way. Like I can always learn more, and get better.