Confidence Issues

I often think, when I am reading other teachers' blog posts or tweets, that it must be a great feeling to be so confident of one's abilities.

I am having confidence issues.

I am confident that I care deeply about my students, and I am confident that I try my very best to help them learn. Other than that, I am on shaky ground.

I am not confident that what I am teaching them is what they really need to know.  The Common Core Standards may tell me that I am on the right track, but I am not very confident in the Common Core Standards, either. I see kids who are so disengaged and turned off by the curriculum that no project is going to bring them back. You can't make kids be intrinsically motivated about things that they care nothing about.

But, on the other hand, if kids DON'T learn some of the less-than-thrilling concepts in the Common Core Standards, can they really be called educated?

Can ALL learning be engaging? Do all kids need to learn the same things? Can't the curriculum be differentiated as well as the instruction?

I have confidence issues across the board, so it is only natural that I would question what I am doing in the classroom.

I just wonder if anyone else out there fights the same demons?