Right now I should be in bed, but I'm not. I'm grading papers. I'm doing work that's off the clock and I'm not being paid over time. Thought unlike my co-worker who was in on Saturday to grade her classes Science notebooks, I prefer to be set up at home. (Actually the truth is that my home computer has my gradebook on it and I don't like the ones they have for Linux right now)
BUT that's beside the point (point being I'm a (private school teacher and we get paid; well not that much)...
Yet dispite all of this: There is idea from this video...
Where the top 10 in demand jobs for 2010 didn't exist in 2004 and students are being prepped for jobs that don't exist, technology that hasn't been invented, and for problems that haven't even occurred.
Whose job is that?
Well primarily its the parents duty to lay down the basics, but in school its the teacher's job to carry on. That just makes my job as a teacher seem fucking profound and suddenly more important than I usually feel that my job is.
Another caveat here is another video I love about learning and development:
Oddly enough... my parents were weird enough to basically let me do all of those things on this video list. (Explains a lot and I plan on doing the same thing should I ever spawn offspring. I'm actually quite excited to pass on my pocket knife to my kid.) Inspired by this video awhile ago, I'm trying to find a place in my curriculum where I can get my students to take apart an appliance, because personally the ability to do that has made a lasting impression in my life.
As a teacher I might just be crazy.
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