Not the Worst, and It’s Not Comforting

The other day at my seminar for my masters class (it’s only with other TESOL Fellows), we were discussing our expectations about the schools where we’re teaching as well as our expectations about the students, and then what we’re really seeing, any disillusionments, or nice surprises, etc..

One of the Fellows said that she was surprised she wasn’t the worst teacher in the school. Most of the class whooped, like, “That’s great!”, but then someone said, “Actually, that’s kind of disturbing when you think about it.”

(Because we’re new and not yet trained to teach, really)

I must say the same is true with me at my school…