On Being a Weak Teacher
All educators (who aren’t chatbots) know weakness. Disorganization, stage fright, incompetence in a subject matter, pedagogical clumsiness. These things inhibit our effectiveness and confidence. One day we discover—surprise!—we are not the John Keatings and William Forresters we hope to be. I am a weak teacher myself (with my own cocktail of fits and foibles), but […]
