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Teaching Teaching
The Teacher-Self - In Schools and Out
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We all carry an inner voice that tells us how to learn. In this episode, I reflect on the teacher-self — how it is shaped by school, family, and culture, and how it influences whether we comply, resist, or truly engage. What might change if we began to consciously author our own relationship to learning?
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Teacher-selves are formed through purposeful attention to learning as we make it. Teacher-selves are made through experience. Think about your parents and those close to you growing up. How much of your approach to learning was shaped by what they said, what they modeled, and the expectations they set? As much as we might think of the teacher-self as individual and personal, it is also a manifestation of cultural, communal, and familial models of teacher-selves.