It's like this - After surprising my teachers, my wife, and myself, I finished with a M.A. in Education and thought I would get a teaching job in a public school with no problem. Then I thought I would accept a job at a private school or even tutoring at Sylvan. I don't want to post a lot about my trials and that is one reason I'm not writing a lot. Right now, I am substitute teaching and learning a lot of lessons. I am learning how to treat students well. I am learning to teach to students with short attention spans. I am learning that strategies that work with children with ADD or ADHD OR Asperger's syndrome will work with any child in the class. I have worked with disruptive students and "lost my cool". I have worked with distruptive children and smiled, laughed, sang a clean up song and thought "I could do this forever." I find that substitute teaching is not fair, since the substitute does not have the respect nor the credibility of the classroom teacher. But it is a necessary temporary vocation, especially when I realize how teachers have lives too. Teachers have homes and children and obligations. Teachers need to take days off and trust their students are going to be taught ... professionally.
I do not remember a single substitute teacher when I was growing up. I do not want to be substitute teaching. The work is difficult. The pay is appropriate, considering the supply and the demand. But I also care about students. I am not going to let students run the class. No. In fact, I have tried to establish some norms when I have worked in jobs more than one day.
I have not posted a lot in the past few months because I do not want my trials in this transition year to be open for examination. There are trails, yet I am strong enough to know that some principal, some school is going to be fortunate to land a surprising talent like myself. Conceited? Well, maybe confident. Confident enough with a sprinkle of humility. I am not am a perfect polished diamond, but I am a teacher. I am a good teacher. I am creative, prepared, spontaneous, willing to learn, energetic, intelligent and wise. And I am getting better every day.
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