A simple model for teacher sustainability and growth

What are the most important factors for teacher sustainability?

I'm sure there are many: student behaviour, planning time, teaching hours, pay, etc. I'll look at just two factors that, together, provide a rough rule for deciding whether an activity or assignment is sustainable.

The two factors are 1) how much these activities develop the student and 2) how much they develop the teacher. Crossing these continua, we get this:

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