Thursday, September 24, 2009

What next

So now that I have decided to become a teacher what was the next step. I had no idea what to expect, what was invovled with becoming a teacher? Was this something I actually wanted to do or was I just doing it to have a major?
That last question I still ponder to this day and most likely will for the rest of my life. How can a 20 year old "kid" decide what they want to spend the rest of thier life doing? I sure as hell dont know.
I went on to tell myself that the idea of teaching didnt sound so bad. That was kind of a typical response many college students say when they choose a major. SO I went on with the process of enrolling in education classes, doing research about what types of things I was going to study and what grade levels I wanted to teach.
That was the next big question, to teach big kids or little kids?
Deciding that was hard, I had little info at the time about anything invovling teach so I did what every intro class at URI (my college) told me, GO TALK TO AN ADVISOR. SO I did. All I really have to say about that was, Mrs A (Name changed) scared the living day lights out of me. I sweated more in that ten minute meating than and hour on a rowing machine, and thats alot. The only useful info I got out of that meeting was two things, A) do research on the internet first, and B) find a new advisor ( I did, quite a bit younger one too I might add).
After all of that drama I went of the school website and found thier link to the School of Education. It was very helpful. Answered all my questions and with ease sitting at my desk and alot less sweating. There was a whole long, boring application process involving an interview and porfolio, but I'll leave you with this I MADE IT INTO THE MAJOR!!!!

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