I love my staff room.
One of the best things about it is the quality banter.
One of the common sounds amongst my colleagues is laughter.
Or at least a good chuckle.
But, the banter can get vocationally dark.
We can sarcastically banter about students, administration, marking, assessments and preparation.
As the largest faculty in our school, we also have a lot of prac students.
This term alone, we have had a half dozen university students join us.
Whenever the banter about out job is supercharged - and bent towards the negatives of the job - I will regularly chirp in with an important disclaimer.
We love our jobs.
We enjoy teaching.
We like (the vast majority) of our students.
And young impressionable teachers need to hear this amongst the banter.
They need to hear our passion amongst the snark.
They need to sense the enjoyment in the middle of the humorous grumbling.
As you are in a profession and workplace long-term , you can - from the outside - appear and sounded cynical or jaded.
Even if you’re not.
And, young trainees must realise that underneath the banter is passion.
No comments:
Post a Comment