Back to school, back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool...
Yup. Less than a month after graduation, I'm back in the saddle again.
Sure, I'm a college graduate now. I could just be done with it. But I guess I just hadn't tortured myself enough.
Just kidding. I like school. Why else would I decide to be a teacher, a job that requires me to be in school nine months of the year? Anyway, so I continue along the road to achieving that goal.
I should probably give my readers the rundown of what I'm going to be up to for the next year or so, because it's complicated and you might want something to refer back to (ahem, Dad):
Summer Session 2008
I started yesterday! I'm taking a total of five classes this summer (two the first half, two the second half and one online). They're your standard child development pedagogy courses. The two I've started are School & Society (which is pretty much exactly how it sounds and it should be sweet) and Individual Differences (which I'm pretty sure won't be what it sounds like...I'll let you know). I also started the online class (Fundamentals of Alcohol and Drug Abuse).
I'll get a short break in late August before starting...
Fall Semester 2008
Here I will be doing two things: taking courses more specifically related to teaching English (like Teaching Reading and Media Literacy) and participating in a practicum, which means I'll spend a couple of hours a week in a classroom (most likely a 9th or 10th grade English class at Crosswinds School in Woodbury, but it has yet to be figured out) helping out and maybe teaching a lesson or two.
Spring Semester 2009
Between January and March, I have a couple of classes to finish up (like Teaching Composition). Then starting and March and continuing through the school year, I'll be doing my student teaching. Word is they've decided our placements (I requested Richfield Middle School), but they're not letting us in on the info. I'll let you know.
Summer 2009
Here's where I haven't decided: do I finish up the 6 or so credits I'll have left to complete my Master's? Or should I just take my license, get a job and come back the following summer? I'll have to think about that (especially whether I'd like to take a break before starting work full-time). My hope is to start teaching in the fall of '09, so I'll have to put my energies into job hunting next summer.
Anyway, I'll give you a update on my classes as the semester progresses. Are there any other topics you'd like me to post about?
posted by Emilia @ 6/17/2008 12:38:00 PM
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5 Comments:
Even though you razzed me a little (I can take it), I appreciate the newsworthy update. Post often, perhaps about cupcakes!
Cupcakes or something. It's been SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO long since you've bloogered about food.
Summer 2009: It is very, very, very, very, very hard to return to school once you've left.
What about all your Espanol? I don't see it applied anywhere...
The ultimate dream is as follows: I would like to be hired as a language arts teacher at Richfield Middle School. Now, the thing about the Richfield district is that they just opened a Dual Immersion elementary school (I think I've described what that is on this blog before). Right now they just have kindergardeners, but what I'd like is to teach English language arts for a few years and get my bearings, then by the time those students reach middle school, I'll have helped design the middle school program (which in my head is a Spanish-English Language Arts hybrid) and be ready to teach it (possibly by gaining an additional license). That's what I'd really like. But a lot of things would have to come together to make that possible, so I'm starting small.
As long as you have a plan...
Back in my day they suggested that we get a job before we got the masters because schools were more likely to hire new teachers without masters because they were cheaper. So I looked for a job without my masters (in a very tight market) and managed to get a good one for a whopping $7,050/year, which was considered good in 1973. Unfortunately, I never got around to finishing the masters though.
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