Is great teaching just pie in the sky?
Is it just an unreachable goal to be able to make every class an excellent class and every course a meaningful course?
Is it too much preparation, too much work?
Is it impossible?
The thing is: You
will never really know that you're great.
But every single minute in every single class has to count.
Teachers have to expect much more from themselves than they expect from their students.
Even though higher education teachers are people with lives and obligations, those obligations cannot compromise what you do. It has to be at least 40 hours a week. It has to be individual attention. It has to be forcing and demanding student success and constantly figuring out how to do that. It has to be clicking on mental lights.
Teaching is a job, not a vacation with classes.
Parents expected each of their child’s teachers to be wonderful. That expectation didn’t end after grade 12.
Great teaching is all about personal perseverance. That’s the real key.
With good teachers miracles do happen. And each teacher has to set his or her personal bar high enough to be a miracle worker.
Teaching is really a calling, not just a job.
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