Born to teach?
Born to teach? Now there’s a question! You often hear people say, “x was born to be a teacher, they are a natural, teaching is in their blood!” Etc. Is that true though? For me personally, I wasn’t born to teach. In fact, I had no idea what I wanted to be until I got to sixth form and thought, “bloody hell! I need to start thinking about what I’m going to do in real life!” I had never thought about teaching. I don’t have teachers in my family, I wasn’t in awe of all of my teachers nor did I think I could do a better job than them and want to prove it. Some very generous people have said to me at points in my career all those quotes I started this blog with and I’m pretty sure that I’m undeserving of them but I’ve gone on to do alright so I’ll take them! So what is it then? When you see these really ‘gifted’ or ‘natural’ teachers, what is it that makes them this way? Is it purely the training they go through? Nah. Is it the fact they get on well with children? Can’t be.