Thank you for being a teacher. Thank you for caring enough about the future of America's children to teach in the elementary or middle school. Teaching is hard work.
Good teaching is even harder.
And good foreign language teaching in Grades K-8 is among the hardest jobs of all. It's physically demanding work. Just the physical demands of moving from room to room, being physically active and engaging for ten different groups of students who are pretty active themselves is demanding. And let's not forget the physical effort involved in making materials for all those students, loading and unloading those carts, and getting them from one end of the building to another. Good teaching requires careful, thoughtful planning, analyzing learner performance in light of curriculum goals.