TWELVE
Five Warnings
Why This Ride May Be Hazardous to Your Health
Over time I’ve developed an internal warning system—a system that alerts me to cognitive distortions that continue to emerge in my teaching experience and get in my way of achieving the optimum teaching experience. Warnings are necessary because these distortions visit me at times that I don’t expect them. I wish they wouldn’t, yet that wish doesn’t seem to hold any sway over their existence.
So here, I want to give you fair warning, describing the distortions that visit me and what I do to prevent them from affecting my desired outcome of using every minute in class as a time for learning and developing. I suspect that these five distortions affect many teachers one way ...
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