Why be a
teacher? Wendy Griffiths, Headmistress, talks about this invaluable role and offers her experience and insights. When I started my career, I remember pupils regularly asking why I had become a teacher. Many seemed surprised that it would be a conscious choice for graduates. Their other focus was a genuine belief that teaching must be boring, as our role was simply to deliver the same information on an annual basis. I recently asked the teachers at Tudor to indicate whether teaching had been their chosen direction when they were at school. Approximately two thirds,
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