Story 111 sounded familiar to me. Donna Dunbar-Odom was mentoring a TA that said, "All this teaching is getting in the way of my real work!"
I admit, I have felt something similar to this before. I'm a literature major, and I want to teach Literature, not composition. I started my first job with this attitude, as if the job was a step on the ladder toward my dream job. This isn't to say I hate what I was teaching and still am teaching, I don't hate it. However, sometimes I feel that the journey to my ultimate goal has stagnated. I know, I know, keep thinking positively, I'll get there, but how many times can I talk about the same thing with the same amount of passion I have now? I guess this is why we have to keep changing our syllabus to keep things interesting, or being some of my interest into class. I'm curious whether other Literature or non -rhet/comp composition teachers feel this way sometimes.
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