Second Guessing Myself
My worst habit is second guessing myself. Although I've worked in the same field, yet different capacities, for 23 years and sometimes I still don't know how up-to-date my techniques are. But then I remember that I am teaching people varying stages of how to see and understand the same material, and along side them I am also learning the newest data and details of our industry.
As Socrates said, "One can not be a teacher, if they cease to be a student."
Hi Barry,
Socrates is right of course. As educators we are learning continuously. It seems as though with the courses (computers) I teach, once I learn all the answers, they change all the questions. As educators, we are certainly life-long learners.
Oddly enough I often learn what the "next new thing" is from my students. But by having more experience than my students (usually!), I can interpret that information for them in a "deeper" context.
