How it started

I think I might have been born one, a teacher that is. People were always asking me to explain the math homework or wanted to know what i got for number twelve. Somewhere between My senior year of high school and freshman orientation at college I decided I wanted to be in school for the rest of my life. I declared my major as English and theatre education and spent the next four and a half years preparing to be a teacher. I worked three semesters as an intern at a school, learning the practice and art of teaching.

Then, it came. My teaching certification.

Now what? I finished teaching school in December, and there are very few teaching positions that open in the middle of the school year. I also had applied to a program to teach English in Japan. If accepted, I would leave the states in six months. Instead of pursuing a full-time teaching position, I decide to substitute teach for the school district until the fate of the Japan program is known or better prospects are available for a full-time teaching position.

In the meantime, in the in-between, in the waiting, I am here. I now marinate in the teaching profession knowing that I have not arrived yet but soak in everything I hear, observe, and read. I've only been a sub for two weeks and I already have stories from my days in the trenches. These are my stories, observations, and thoughts from the educational world. Someone inside the system yet not accepted into the full-time ranks. All tales told here are true, at least from my point of view.