Obviously there has to be a good side to teaching, for if there wasn't, no one would do it. There are many great moments in teaching. Many of those moments you will never know about, and that's the hard part. So often it is years later after you were that child's teacher that you realize the impact that you made on that child. And it usually never the kid you would have thought. Case in point. I had a student when I taught 6th grade. Her older brother was in 8th grade and struggling something horrible in science. At the time the science teacher was what one might call technical(you might know it as dry and boring) and he could just not catch on. A very shy kid, he finally got the nerve to ask me after school one day for help while his sister was hanging out reorganizing my books(slave labor comes cheap when you have goodie-goodie's in class :P ). I was the type of person who likes to use more real life terms. I tell people the real term but I also translate to real people speak. You … [Read more...]