Quote:
|
Originally Posted by shesus
They told me in undergrad that a BA in teaching would be desirable for many professions. However, what I typically run across is people wondering why I want to leave the classroom. I have to explain that I want to change the path of my carreer and then I get the lecture about how 'real' world aka business world jobs are different from the classroom. I say, yes, I know that is why I want to be out of the classroom.
|
Brief thread hijack:
I knew a teacher who had a great response to that question from non-teachers. She'd ask if they ever hosted or helped host a children's birthday party. Usually they'd say, yes. Then she said, imagine hosting a birthday party for 30 kids all by yourself, six hours a day, five days a week. Then, she'd say, ask yourself if you could do that job. Because I can.
The best, most dedicated, most positive teacher I know took a break after 10-12 years in the elementary classroom, because she was burning out: "I was no longer the teacher I wanted to be," she told me. She took a couple of years off to be a student-teaching supervisor and took a master's in admin at the same time. And she went back to work as a principal.
The classroom is tough.