What Teachers Make

今天再讀這本書的后面幾章，深得我心呀。我也看到了自己對(duì)教師行業(yè)的誤解。在成為一名老師之前，我覺得老師的工作很輕松，只要自己的英語(yǔ)知識(shí)過(guò)硬，我就可以拿來(lái)就教，但是正如Mali所說(shuō)：

Teachers realise that seven hours of working in school requires an additional seven hours of work out of school prepping and grading: teachers burn out.

我在開始正式上班之后，一度很絕望，認(rèn)為自己所有的時(shí)間都在備課和上課，還戰(zhàn)戰(zhàn)兢兢地做不好，身邊的人呀，也都不是很理解，認(rèn)為我有很多地空閑時(shí)間呀，Mali又說(shuō)了：

Whenever I hear someone on television talk about how easy teachers have it, I want to put them in their own classroom for a year to see how they survive.

All the teachers I have known need at least one hour outside the classroom for every hour they spend in the classroom.

So the next time you hear someone talk about the paltry number of hours teachers put in every day, double it.

That may sound like a lot, but teachers need this time for meeting, planning, and preparation beforehand, and evaluation, grading, and counseling afterward.