Walking Encyclopedias, Cash Clerks and Nose Wipers
In 2000, Newcastle University published a medical education guide which split the profession of a teacher-not into one, two or three roles but into twelve different ones. Outside of classroom instruction, teacher responsibilities have historically ranged from assessing performance to mentoring students and even managing the expectations of overeager parents. But I began to question this status quo, for how could any single human being however talented realistically manage all of these responsibilities at once?
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