Why Good Teachers Are Like Pokémon

Why Good Teachers Are Like Pokémon

4 years ago
Anonymous $xdcOWPpsb_

https://www.wired.com/story/why-good-teachers-are-like-pokemon/

I can almost remember the very first class I was responsible for. It was a college-level physics lab, and I was a graduate teaching assistant. It was both fun and weird. I wasn’t much older than the students, but there I was, in charge of it all. That was a long time ago.

In the years since, I’ve changed the way I approach science education (though sometimes I go back to habits and methods from that first course). In fact, I think educators are sort of like Pokémon: We evolve to different levels and gain different powers (sadly, we look different too). In my experience, there are three levels in the development of a teacher.