So, I'm getting laid off from my crap job in October and I've decided to go back to my roots, so to speak, and get back to teaching. I was about 6 hours away from getting my teacher certification in college, but decided in the 11th hour to get my BA in Music instead and skip the certification part. Looking back, I shouldn't have done that. Now I'm going to have to go the emergency certification route. I took all the classes I need in my content area (music) when I was in school 10 years ago. Just wondering how many teachers there are here, if you like it, and if anyone has gone through the emergency certification program.
i think the Emergency Teacher Certification program now includes instructional kevlar protection and gun-fight combat technique classes.
I am a substitute teacher. Sitting in a class room right now. I don't think you can beat the hours. However, I think teaching is what you make of it. These days, teachers have to be more of a warden than a instructor which takes away from the job. I bet teaching fifty years ago was more rewarding. Be sure to head to a good school district. My girlfriend's mother retired as a teacher when her children were in high school so she could be a house mom and give them the motherly love they needed. When her children went to college she took another teaching job to help make some more money and stay busy. Well she went to a school in Galveston, which if you know anything about Galveston, enough said. From what I can see, go to a good school where the children care to learn. What grade are you looking at?
or go to a poor school and try to help the kids stuck there that really do want to learn in spite of the insufficient funding and lack of resources.....
No, not " " You shouldn't be in cf.net while you're with the kiddos, man, you know that. jk. Post away.
I'm a teacher among other things, but I did all my credential work in NY and LA. I love it. I work with 3rd graders in 100% title I school, so it is a special population of kids. Some things get annoying. But it is just usual administrative crap. Bad teachers who don't do all they should for their students really bother me as well. But luckily I don't enounter but a few of them. The thing about it is that I don't have to work in an office with a bunch of people I can't relate to. My co-workers are basically 8 years old. The hours during the year are extremely long, but the breaks are great. I work at a year round school, so my summer break comes at different times of hte year. I like that, but next year we will be on a traditional calendar. Either way the time off is great.
At this poor district I am at, it is $55 a day. I will have a bachelor's degree in May, and it goes up a little with that. Back home it is like $60 something a day, with a degree it is a little over $100 a day. Imagine school districts differ greatly.
But I umpire for TASO (high school) in the evenings. That's where the money is. I can make up to $120 in roughly 4 hours. Just this evening I will make $75 for a single varsity game, and only got to drive about 3 miles to do it.
When I was evacuated, I hired on with Pulaski County, AR (Little Rock/North Little Rock) Schools to substitute. It was $55/day there, but I got called back to my full-time job before I was needed.
Jr high or high school band. Preferably jr high band and high school drumline. That's it for me. Most of my friends are teachers, my girlfriend is a teacher, and my sister, brother in law and Mother are teachers. I want to do something I'm passionate about. I can't say that about my job right now, and that's a severe understatement... Life is too short to sit in a cubicle for 40 hours a week, posting on this bbs, throwing in some actual work every once in a while, all the while counting the minutes until 5pm on Friday. Also, I think the starting salaries have gone up by about 10K since I graduated college 10 years ago.
Hello ? - Yeah ? - Is this Mr. Schneebly ? No, he's not here. - Could you take a message for me ? - Yeah. Hi. My name's Rosalie Mullins. I'm the principal at Horace Green Prep. We're having a little emergency. One of our teachers broke her leg this morning, and all of our subs are already working. Pat Wickam at Milton Prep recommended I call Mr. Schneebly. Do you know if he's available ? - How long is the gig ? - Excuse me ? How long is the job ? As much as a few weeks, but we need somebody to start immediately. So how much are we talking here ? We pay our substitutes 650 a week. Now, do you know when Mr. Schneebly will be back ? Hold on a sec. Oh, you know what ? I think he's just coming in right... Ned, phone ! Hello, this is Ned Schneebly. Pat faxed me your resume. It's very impressive. We've never been in a bind like this before, so thank you so much.
You don't even have to have a bachelor's? Damn... So do they bump you up to 200 with a Master's? i keed
Not for subbin', you don't, finalsbound. At least not in HISD. I think they DO require 60 hours, last I checked. School of Rock? AWESOME movie, man. "You da man!" "Thank you!". I know that when I was a teacher's assistant, I made about $16,000/year. I didn't even have to come in to the office during June and July, and I got paid. "WTF? A check?" - me
Music educators rule. Congratulations from a fellow bbs percussionist on getting back to your roots. I'm now a music education student, as I was always jealous of what y'all got to do, and I tried being a "good girl" and getting a degree and job in a traditional academic subject. It's still something I can use for part-time work. I liked the act of teaching, but my main problem was that I was not passionate about my own subject, nor really fit in with other professionals in that area, and realized my mindset was not in science. The thing is... you would think I'd be planning to be a band or drumline director, and that's what my school thinks right now too, but there are other areas of music I'm interested in, and worked on even while I had other jobs. I'm not that into the marching band scene and didn't have much experience with it growing up. Teaching college music might be fun, but I don't have time to get another advanced degree or two, and with the stuffy atmosphere you often encounter being college faculty, I've decided that I only want to be an adjunct or lecturer from now on. Sooo... I'm applying to the piano department here at UTSA next month. I will have to switch my degree plan to choral education. It's something I've come to like, and I wasn't always the strongest singer but I have worked and improved a lot over the last two years. I've spent an enjoyable semester observing and working with middle school choir students. Who knows if this will ever be my job or not, but it gives me a chance to work on my piano skills... I had thought about doing that while staying a percussion major, but the percussion department has a bunch of time-consuming requirements and it's hard to focus on anything else when you have all that to do already. I've been playing percussion in one band or another for at least 20 years straight, now that I think about it. To sum it up, I might not be really really good at any one thing, but I'll know how to do a lot of things pretty well. That set of skills might not come in useful in the big city, but I want to go live in a small town or rural setting where it would be more useful. I also still hope to take the woodwind and brass instrument classes if I can fit them in. If my ex ends up reading this, he might think I lost most of my marbles. It's strange that I don't quite know what I want to do, but I'm slowly focusing in on it. Enough about my stuff and back to the originator of the thread.
