My partner and I are both educators who started homeschooling our kids during the pandemic and we keep butting heads over methods because what works in our classrooms feels completely different when we're teaching our own children and neither of us wants to admit we might not know what we're doing. We're good teachers but terrible at being students of our own parenting and teaching journey together.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two teaching professionals are discovering that their professional expertise doesn't automatically translate to teaching their own children, creating conflict between them and forcing them to confront the limits of their pedagogical identity.
“Where Are You with Teaching as learning — the teacher's examined life?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.