Teaching Is Emotionally Expensive Teaching is Emotionally Expensive Tom, a veteran teacher, reflects with some of his peers on some of his teaching experiences over the years. He recounts two particularly troubling incidents, that regretfully, have caused him to conclude that teaching is emotionally expensive. Tom, a veteran teacher of some 20 years, wiped his eye and responded to his colleague's question. You asked me what is hard about teaching.
Teaching is people work.
When you interview for a job, they check your grades and test scores, but in real life, it's the soft skills that determine whether you'll be successful. Soft skills can't be taught. Everyone liked him. You couldn't help but like him. He watched his brother die of a congenital neurological disease, then went through the same slow, debilitating death himself.