Being the teacher....

Some times i come out of the classroom and i'm

sitting on the tube on the way home and i realise

all the things i could have done to make the class better.

Mainly its when i forget to tell them how well they have

done at working hard.

I get so focussed on the corrections and

how to make them better that

i dont take the time to commend their efforts and improvement.

and i dont want to be the kind of teacher that

never pulls a student up and always breaks them down.

Sometimes i realise that i've given some students way more

attention than others,

and after i've left i think to myself how did 'such and such'

do in class today and i realise that i dont know as

i didnt give her enough attention.

i wonder how that makes the students feel,

they probably think its because i dont like them, 

and not simply my inadequacies as a teacher,

not quite always getting the balance right just yet.