Any teachers in here?
I am working on getting my bachelors. I'm slow but will get there eventually
I have 42 credits now (60 needed for an associates). Teaching is something that's always been in the back of my mind... I like the schedule it provides and though I am a "dog person" -- I love kids, too, and enjoy their innocent qualities they possess (I'd wanna teach elementary school kids). I am a personable girl with a pretty good personality (I consider myself fairly outgoing) and think I'd be good in a classroom environment.
In Maryland, it seems to me that teaching is a pretty decent living according to a few people I've met. A lot of people seem to move here for teaching jobs. But I know teaching in general has been harder to find jobs... but I have not looked into this too much yet.
I've been in the "I have no idea what I want to do" boat for the past 3 years (graduated HS in 2008) and I'm sick of it. I've stayed in the community college, taking one semester off, and this semester I only did 2 classes, because I never had a real "goal" to strive towards but I wanted to continue getting a lot of the pre-reqs out of the way. I feel like if I have a goal of becoming a teacher, I will be SO much more motivated knowing what I want to do. If that makes sense. I realize life can always change but teaching seems like a realistic goal for me. If I have something to aim for, school will be more... important to me, I guess.
Anybody a teacher?? Enjoy it, just like it, don't like it at all? I wanna hear good, bad and the ugly and what it takes to become a teacher and be one!!