Voices Inside Schools - Middle-Age Teaching: A Time of Vitality

Abstract

In this article, Abigail Erdmann reflects on her career as a classroom teacher. She shares her delight in discovering that middle age isn't, as she had once thought, a time of boredom or complacency. Instead, she finds it to be a time of growing vitality as her relationship to teaching deepens and changes. She realizes that her students have educated her as much as she has educated them, and reveals that this reciprocity is a primary reason why she continues to find teaching to be a vital and rewarding career. (pp. 584-589)