This'll do.

[free_sadie]

            The first thing I was told by two of the English teachers at St. Georges was, “Teaching isn’t what you think it is.”  They told me teaching was only about 25% actual teaching, and the rest is…  Well, I guess the rest is some combination of lesson planning, grading, disciplining, counseling, and more stuff that sort of seemed like a “you

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[dracoonfyre]

Awesome!

[on_callisto]

You seem to have a really clear, honest picture of what teaching is like, and you still want to do it so far and that is awesome. I can tell you right now that I would probably just not make it. Which is why I want to teach community college ha ha ha ha ha. Jay kay. Sort of.

PS Looking forwards to seeing your faaaaaaaaaaace

[steelykelly87]

I know I've said this before, but you should really consider the program I'm doing at Widener. You get a Masters in Education when you finish (or other combinations of degrees depending on what you want to do) so you can teach English 6 periods a day and then do the schools sex ed class too. It's certainly worth considering and if they took me they will DEFINITELY take you, The Shocker. We had a welcome back reception a few weeks ago and there was a guy who did exactly that; He teaches English at a Quaker school and also teaches the sex ed class there.

[free_sadie]

That sounds pretty awesome... But since I don't have an English undergrad, how would I get qualified to teach English, too? Do you know that guy's name? Maybe I could reach out to him? I want to know more about your program, too! How are you liking it so far?