Education is unique in that the years have distinct borders to them. You start in late summer/early fall and end in late spring/early summer of the next year. 10 months, give or take. 40 weeks, pretty much.
Can you think of another job that has such clear time parameters? Friends of mine who work in medical fields, office jobs, or construction don’t have such clear endings and beginnings.
“Look back ten years and you can probably identify a few blind spots or mistaken beliefs you held at the time. Now, fast forward ten years from today… what are likely to be your current blind spots? What are you not spending enough time thinking about or perhaps even willfully ignoring?”
Because our year is so clear in time borders, do we see the long-term changes in the profession?
Do we see the future coming along?
Or, are we focusing on our time right now, and what that means for us and our classroom?
Let’s face it: any valuable educator is trying to get better at their craft.
Some of us are generalists, like in the elementary grades, and might have to pick getting better at math instruction while keeping the same skill set for English language arts temporarily. Some of us…
