This site is a class blog space for new Career and Technical Specializations and Heathcare Science teachers enrolled in the New Teacher Institute (NTI) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Vocation to Teacher?
The reason I went into teaching is for several reason. I drove a special needs bus for 17 years and my boss told me that I would make a good teacher. At that same time I was policing full time. I had one outlook about juveniles (the butt system) You need to beat their#$$ and we would not have the problem we have today. Years later I left the road (policing) and went to work as a resource officer. One of my assist principal came to me and ask if I would be interested in teaching. This was weird when I had heard this sometime ago. I told her that I would think about it. I waited two years before I committed myself. I wondered to myself what do I have to offer the students? Maybe I could change the the butt system, or I could keep some kids from going to jail or prison. I did sign my contract.
Thats a great state of mind to be in. The youth of the nation need all the help they can get.
ReplyDeleteWhile there is still a need for the "butt" system, my views have changed a little since I swapped professions. Sometimes it is difficult to decide whether a student needs another chance or a "beat-down". ( Only a good brow-beating of course).
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I agree in the "butt" system, but it is very hard to decide when they really need the "butt" or to give them another opportunity.
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