
Is My Work About Me, or About My Students?
This is a topic that I have been thinking about for a long time, probably ever since I started teaching. It's tricky, because talking about my thought process involves me talking about my mentors, and assessing how I learned my own skills and survival methods through their programs. When I first started learning wilderness survival skills in a formal way, through the Tracker School and Tom Brown, Jr, I never thought about the 'Teaching Model' I was going through. I never