. . . I was inspired by . . . the bad teachers I had as a pupil. When a teacher was unfair, I thought: “If I become a teacher, I won’t discriminate against my pupils.” When I found the lesson boring (which was often the case), I would think of ways s/he could have made the lesson more interesting. As a teenager, I decided that I would like to become a teacher in order to improve education (the common belief of teenagers, that they can change the world..). I achieved my goal in becoming a teacher of English, but was disappointed to see that things were not that easy after all. In most Greek state schools, you keep trying to overcome obstacles: very few good colleagues, big and mixed ability classes, limited use of technology and resources and the list goes on. I have a clear conscience, though. Despite the difficulties, I always do my best in the classroom and have reached so far without being unfair to anyone. . .
Anastasia Pistopoulou's blog Teaching English!
