My Department Head, Writing, and What Teachers Really Do If They’re Any Good
Last summer I was hired by a small town on the South Shore in Massachusetts to teach high school history. I was interviewed initially by the head of the history department, who struck me as a bit…well, burned out. He kept inviting me to commiserate with him about unmotivated students.
Now maybe he was feeling that way, or maybe he was just inviting me to feel that way, but from where I sat, he was walking away from a full meal feeling hungry because the last course wasn’t QUITE up to snuff. I told him a little about working in an urban school system, and how I would relish the opportunity to teach upper level courses in a school that offered a varied curriculum, among teachers who were committed to their work. I tried to do this without giving too much away about how much my job in […]
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