Certification Pending...
Certification Pending...
This is such a depressing thing to see when you have studied for what essentially amounts to three months straight.
Sadly, I only have myself to blame considering I let my background check slip. Now I have to get in touch with people to have my work email unlocked.
It has been a long and winding road already…
No one at grad school said anything about additional certification…
The program was geared towards preparing student to teach adults, not kids.
Then again, when I asked the ‘teaching career’ guru if I should get certified in general education or special education…she said ‘no’.
Do yourself a favor, if you are going to specialize in ESL, special education, or any other area…go for additional certification in general education. There are more special education jobs than there are ESL (in my State, anyway) and there is WAY more general education jobs than there are both ESL and special education combined.
Get it while you are still in college!
It will open up three times as many doors for you!
Start in general education, get that experience, then work towards the subject or kinds of students you actually want to teach.
Get your foot in the door!
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Swearing...
Sub psychotic rage
Blood pouring from sacred place
The pain of betrayal.
Oh Dear...
“Give me your phone number!”
It does not seem to matter to her that she is six and I am…not.
Yes, I started my teaching journey rather late…
Secretarial work just wasn’t cutting it anymore…
Again, it didn’t matter to her that I am several years older…
I am the ‘fun’ teacher…the ‘nice’ teacher…the ‘pretty’ teacher.
What I lack in classroom management (since this is my first year), I make up for in enthusiasm, kindness, creativity, subject knowledge, and yes…fun.
This was not fun…
I had to leave a note with her ‘every day teacher’ that little girl insisted that I give her my cell phone number.
I did not, for the record…
I am weird and admittedly a little immature, not predatory!
Chocolate
Chocolate is love.
A filling is optional.
Peanut butter though.
White Cherry Blossoms...
White petals flutter
Warm sun, gentle breeze, sunny
Spring has come at last
My Valentines...
Asexual me
I’m Aromantic so please
Do not scar with ‘love’…
Tenth Classroom...
It is Summer School and too hot for a self-proclaimed lava monster to find much joy in taking her small class out for recess.
I have a mixture of English Language Learners, General education, and Special education.
Three of my students have unmediated ADHD…
I’m beginning to see myself in a whole new light…
I must have been an annoying kid to wind up on such strong ADHD meds by the time I graduated high school…
My third grade teacher apparently couldn’t put up with me being a disorganized mess. She kept begging my parents to up my dose even though my grades were A’s and B’s.
There were no ADHD experts in our area…so I get to learn this now as an adult.
I’m in my thirties and I am often mistaken for my twenties…both in physical appearance and in my mannerisms…
How embarrassing…
Third Classroom...
My third classroom…
I taught Shakespeare.
I was fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, and eighteen-years-old.
My classroom was chaotic and stunk of school lunches.
Once again, the ‘weird’ kid was the center of attention.
Seriously though, how hard is it to read the footnotes?
They hold the keys to the wonders of the world!
Nothing ever changes...
Bureaucracy is a tumor on society’s ass that will never go away…
Government…fueled by greed and money…one of the worst necessary evils…
All I wanted from Biden was student loan forgiveness for my admittedly incomplete education. Did I get my diploma? Yes.
Did I graduate feeling confident and ready? No.
My student teaching was interrupted by Corona.
This may not seem like such a big thing to you…
But when you have anxiety and are faced with a new experience, a new challenge, a new career… It is terrifying to feel ill prepared.
Teaching well behaved adults who want to learn English is one thing but teaching children who are a million times more hyper, sociable, and sneaky than you are is an entirely different matter. I am happy to say that I am finally on the right track to becoming a teacher…hopefully a GOOD teacher. But at the same time, I am very disheartened that it took so long and I had to jump through so many rings of fire to do so. You’d think that someone at some point in the educational food chain would know how to organize things better…streamline the process. Make things easier.
No.
First I get told that I need to have three different certifications…
Then I’m told that the school district that just hired me needs me to do yet another background check…
I’m working in the same State! Why do I need to get another background check when I just got one done last month?!
Depressed Again...
Depression hits hard
What if it never leaves me
Will I be trapped here?
Physical Therapy...
Uneven ceiling
Wall colors strange holes in beds
Stretch, ow, strengthen, ow
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