Still alive, still alive
It’s been a vaguely unpleasant couple of weeks, the details of which I’ll not mention (except for the bit about the homework. So… much… homework. Kill me now, please, please).
I just got back from a briefing at the practicum school. I have to say, as much as I tend to be universally skeptical about the idealistic spiel they hurl at us at NIE, it’s rather inspiring to hear the same things from a teacher who’s been teaching for twenty years, and who really believes that what they’re doing is making a difference in the students’ lives. After hearing some of her examples of how they’ve improved and expanded the academic programmes since my days there, even this hopeless cynic finds it hard to disagree that they’re doing something good with education over there.
I’m oddly inspired. This feeling confuses me, but I hope it lasts.