That work is the work of connecting personally and passionately, intimately and individually, with teaching real children in real time. It is enduring work that begins when a teacher enters the classroom for the first time and ends only when exiting on that last day.
"Connecting personally with teaching" is an odd phrase for today's classroom. Each day typically progresses in such a skill-jammed, test-locked, other-directed format that teachers have little room for experiencing satisfaction or for having constructive thoughts about their work.
The average classroom is a pressure cooker crammed with so many shoulds, oughts,...
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