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These are the things which haunt me.
They haunted me as a youth minister.
They haunt me as a teacher.
Why?
Because, if you get them wrong, then they erode confidence.
When you misspell a word on the whiteboard…
When you have a typo in your handouts…
When you don’t know how to say a word…
When you misidentify the gender of a student…
When you don’t know a young person’s name…
These chip away at your credibility.
Of course, no one is perfect.
Teachers and ministers are not cyborgs.
But, if these credibility killers occur regularly, then the professional capital of you being “the expect” in the room diminishes and the secure foundation as someone who cares personally about the youngsters is shaken.
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