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When other teachers trigger professional insecurity

I have been teaching for twenty years and yesterday a new teacher led the most beautiful class I have ever experienced and I feel jealous and threatened and small.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Witnessing superior teaching can activate ego wounds and force confrontation with professional identity and attachment to status.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Teaching as learning — the teacher's examined life?”

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