Creative Teachers Don't Need an Instruction Manual
Channel: John Spencer
Date: 2016-01-26

Great teaching is a craft. It can't be reduced down to a set of steps in an instruction manual. In this illustrated video, I share some thoughts on what it means to abandon the instruction manual. Enjoy this video? Please subscribe to the channel: http://bit.ly/spencervideos


Transcript:
Teaching is a craft. It’s both an art and a science and it can’t be accomplished by following a recipe.  There is no guidebook or instruction manual or how-to video for how to be a great teacher. There is no secret formula or codified list of best practices that will guarantee success in your classroom. 

This craft of teaching is often messy and confusing. You doubt yourself. You get frustrated. You make mistakes. Tons of them. And improvement is painfully slow.

And yet . . . 

That’s the beauty of it. You get to explore like an astronaut, 
experiment like a scientist, design like an engineer, compose like a musician and create like an artist. 

There's no point where you "have arrived." 
As a creative teacher, you're always exploring, always experimenting, always innovating. That’s what makes the journey so amazing.