Feeding the Beast
‘There is no such thing as a selfless good deed’ The Beginning I still greatly cherish one of my earliest teaching moments- as a teaching assistant I had taken a student for some intervention on the structure of the atom, I also happened to scribe for this student in his chemistry GCSE. Despite him struggling in other sections of the exam, when it came to the question about the atom he got almost all of it right! I struggled to hold back my reaction as he reeled off correct answers one after the other. The pure exhilaration was something I had rarely experienced in life, my smile beamed as I left the exam. I sincerely hoped that the student had passed his exam, and I was in a state of euphoria about having contributed in my own way, no matter how small. I’d had my first hit of teaching. The Obsession Since then almost my entire life has been consumed in the pursuit of feeding the beast. Ingesting educational twitter and books, attending conferences at weekends, communicat