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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you ever worked in a school? Student teaching? Substitute? 
The people on DCUM are generally mean and hate FCPS so I wouldn’t give their comments and validity. However, teaching in general is hard and teaching middle school is only for a very special group of people. The people who love middle school absolutely love it and wouldn’t leave. But everyone else either goes higher or lower. It’s a unique age. [/quote]

Yes, I performed a practicum at INTO Mason, working with older ELs. I taught Academic English to international students who mostly matriculate into GMU once they complete their program and pass the TOEFL. I enjoyed that a lot. There are not many positions working full-time with adult ESL students that I have found. I do not have a PhD, so that seems to be precluding me from teaching at the collegiate level. [/quote]

So, I am sorry but that’s not teaching in a K-12 school which is very very different and probably why you aren’t getting hired. As a teacher with a degree in education I took classes that taught classroom management, assessment, child development, how to teach, and so on. I spent 3 semesters with one full day a week in a classroom and then one whole semester student teaching all day, every day. Teaching is hard and if you love it then it’s worth it, but you will just leave it it’s not something you are passionate about and that’s not fair to the students or your colleagues. If it’s not what you actually want to do, please don’t take the job.
If you think you might like to go back and take the appropriate courses then maybe take an IA job or substitute. See what it’s actually like to work in K-12 schools without being completely alone in the classroom. You would probably learn a lot about teaching and about if you’re really interested in it as a career. [/quote]

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