FINALLY TEACHING!!!!

[Wesley Harris]

(08-19-2013 01:10 PM)KateH. Wrote:  Laurie, it would be a huge honor to apply for your position when you retire. Thank you for the recommendation and the advice on taking a few Museum Studies courses. I am actually taking one this semester. I will definitely apply for the job when the time comes.

Hi all, been absent from the forum most of the summer but now work has slowed down...

Speaking of Museum Studies...anyone know of a school or organization that offers an online course?

Matt, be prepared for anything in student teaching and remember you're the expert in everything compared to the students. First thing I taught as a student teacher was welding. Had never welded anything in my life. The teacher gave me a 15-minute lesson and said 'now you know 15 times what they know.' Also taught math (my least favorite topic) and totally unprepared for that experience--but I knew more than they knew. I had to teach the cow's reproduction system with instructions from the teacher to do what I could to impart a "real-life application" that would help bring the school's pregnancy rate down. My most vivid memory though was the sophomore who was so proud his daddy was buying him a pulpwood truck so he could drop out of school. Thirty years later I had to turn that man down for a job because he didn't have the requisite high school diploma.

I was already working at the police department when I finished up my agricultural science education degree. I decided facing bad guys on the streets was preferable to 30 8th graders in the classroom.