Facing Out From The Whiteboard: What I've Learned, Part One.
Transferring your pedagogical skills from the classroom to the commercial sector might just be more worthy than you think. This blog explores the possibilities of which skills could be more beneficial than you first deem. Part one: be amiable and artistic. In 2014, having taught English Language, Literature and Media Studies for 7 years professionally, I was completely disillusioned with the post-Gove legacy. I’d been flattened thinner than a short-sighted hedgehog on the motorway by ridiculous pre-Ofsted expectations to mark 200+ books per week; mark the same piece of work 3 times in coloured-coded comments to show progress and being pressured into manipulating results to show all pupils were above target, exceeding target or unexpectedly exceeding target. At the end of the day, you can’t polish a turd – take heed, Greening. Being of the stubborn age of somewhere between 30 and 40, I decided it was time to change. I’d wanted to be a writer since I was 17 and who was I to ar...