After 10 years in the classroom—teaching everything from elementary school to adult education classes—Roxanna Elden has seen it all. Now working as a writing teacher at Hialeah High School in Miami, Elden, who is the author of
See Me After Class: Advice for Teachers By Teachers a humorous survival book for new teachers, is on a mission to bust the super teacher myth for good.
In the TED-style talk above, Elden told attendees at the recent Education Writers Association conference that the super teacher myth—which she aspired to in her first year—is driven by the media and politicians. They
