Here I am, doing my student-teaching. I have 8th grade science in a school with a poor, mostly minority population. It's fairly different from teaching college in ways I'm sure we all understand.
For me, teaching means getting lost....lost in the material, the students...losing my introverted self-consciousness and trying to get SOME of them to see what I see when I look at things through the lenses of science. Most don't care much. Many are already 14 or 15 years old and plan to drop-out on their 16th birthday. That doesn't really discourage me. I know I'm reaching some and that's enough for me. Just don't point out to me that I'm up in front of a group of people....lol!
Teaching
For me, teaching means getting lost....lost in the material, the students...losing my introverted self-consciousness and trying to get SOME of them to see what I see when I look at things through the lenses of science.
Most don't care much. Many are already 14 or 15 years old and plan to drop-out on their 16th birthday. That doesn't really discourage me. I know I'm reaching some and that's enough for me. Just don't point out to me that I'm up in front of a group of people....lol!