Can you accept the fact that you are not the smartest person in the room?
When you are a student, it's completely fine to not be the smartest kid. But when you are a teacher, there's an unspoken expectation that you must be the expert. You need to know all the answers. The problem is: most of the time, you don't have all the answers.
When you are a student, it's completely fine to not be the smartest kid. But when you are a teacher, there's an unspoken expectation that you must be the expert. You need to know all the answers. The problem is: most of the time, you don't have all the answers. But maybe, just maybe, someone in the class has a clue. Maybe, someone has the experience. Maybe, someone knows a person who can help. Maybe, when we all work together, we might find the solution. It is easy for teachers, me included, to fall into this "trap" of pretending that we know the answers, that we are the experts, that we…
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