the teaching body, the suffering body

2023-09-05 15:43:00

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The health of teachers is often neglected by the institution. However, teachers, hard hit physically, are less often absent than private sector employees.





By Heloise Rambert

Teaching is not just an intellectual task.  Giving lessons is first of all a physical test.
Teaching is not just an intellectual task. Giving lessons is first and foremost a physical test.
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« C’is the art of stand-up, our job”, smiles Thibaut Poirot, history-geography teacher at the high school of Épernay (Marne). The analogy seems obvious. In class, the teachers put on a show. On the platform that serves as their stage, they become actors. Even a little playboy. “As the day progresses and the students give up, the teacher must always overplay more to capture their attention,” says the professor from Champagne. In this great performance, repeated every day, the teachers give themselves without counting. “There are the frantic reels, the arm which agitates with the chalk. In progress, we lose a lot of water! he laughs once more.

This is undoubtedly one of the great misunderstandings between the teaching “body” and those who have not attended school since…


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