The concept of a teacher “shortage” seems to flowing through the mainstream media at the moment. The only thing is that there is no teacher shortage and never has been. There are at any point in time plenty of teachers floating around and an ample number of teaching graduates entering the realms of education.However, a greater number of these people either do not want enter teaching or even stay in teaching.The big question then is….why? Why would someone not want…..
As a teacher I’ve had a very unique view of the world throughout the covid pandemic. By seeing things through the eyes of our children. This has made me realise what the real pandemic in our society is. It certainly isn’t a communicable disease but rather a condition which costs us much more in time, money and resources than we could ever imagine.Forget about the “covid” pandemic. This is the “lack of confidence” pandemic. This pandemic has been around long…..
The notion of the “inner child” became very popular back in the 1990’s where individuals would look within and try discover or at least re-discover who they really were. Part of this was a healing process for a wounded self left behind from childhood when one grows up and becomes an adult. This could also include a process of forgiveness for oneself and also forgiveness for one’s parents for any indiscretions that occurred during their childhood. It became a bit…..