What happens to the ‘could have beens’ who decided not to teach? | ECF Staffroom

Mark and Elaine hear from researcher Emily Macleod, who says that if we want more people to try out teaching, we have to stop thinking of it as a vocation.
"These trajectories into teaching, they're not linear. They're multi-directional, they're complex... No one's trajectory into anything is going to be straightforward."
Not a vocation? For Emily Macleod teaching is an expert profession - nobody is 'born' to do it.
One in three young people consider teaching at some point. What happens to the ‘could have beens’?
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