We described a ‘Teacher Brain’ as being able to find mistakes in everyday places and conversations.
A teacher brain also works in thinking about your job when you are ‘off-duty’. Perhaps walking through a shopping centre and seeing some random craft objects in a store and being bombarded with visions of your class’ next art adventure.
Or seeing your own child’s homework sheet and working out how you would do it differently.
We found another blog which describes some more examples of a ‘Teacher Brain’. We were a little excited to see our terminology used elsewhere!
http://jimburke.typepad.com/my_weblog/2009/12/the-teacher-brain.html