I’m mentally pinching myself every minute of the day thinking, ‘Am I really a teacher?’”Little about teaching is what she expected. What I’ve experienced since then is that it’s really quite remarkable how resilient the pupils seem. But no question, I’m getting a big buzz out of it.”Himanshu Vaishampayan, 55Physics teacher at Ark Putney academy, south-west London. Somewhere around November the penny dropped – ‘if they’re not engaged, that’s because I’m teaching badly’. That was my first experience of teaching, although teaching eight very keen mature students is very different from being in a classroom.

Source: The Guardian March 11, 2018 09:32 UTC