and your head keeps spinning on and on...
I've been pretty much working non-stop since last April between classes, my work placement and my summer jobs. I haven't been sure what to do next, though I do have some foggy paths here and there...
But today my head is spinning. Over the last two days, I feel like I've been put on a rollercoaster that just won't stop, most of all because I'm pretty sure I got an insane job offer.
The director of one of the high schools in the town I've worked in this summer heard about me and just talked to me about taking over one of the english teacher position for what would probably be the rest of the year. A full time position (which would ammount to about 19 hours of classes at the high school, added to an hell of a lot of work at home) for 5 different classes in 2 different years.
The thing is that this offer is really tempting and very flattering in a sense. But I just graduated less than 2 months ago, I have no training in being a teacher/teaching/managing a class, how to prepare a class or grade homework and tests...I like helping and I've given some individual lessons for a kid last year but teaching should be a vocation, at least I think so, and while I liked helping that kid, I'm not sure I have that vocation in me. I've always felt more of a calling toward thing like being a nurse/working with kidergarteners or small kids.
The offer is awesome, the pay would be good but I feel like this would be bitting more than I could chew...and I could try and end up seeing I'm miserable at it. That wouldn't be so bad for me...It's only 9 months of my life. But I don't want to be a bad teacher to those kids. Loosing a year to a bad teacher in high school isn't easy to get back.
So my head is spinning...and spinning...and spinning
But today my head is spinning. Over the last two days, I feel like I've been put on a rollercoaster that just won't stop, most of all because I'm pretty sure I got an insane job offer.
The director of one of the high schools in the town I've worked in this summer heard about me and just talked to me about taking over one of the english teacher position for what would probably be the rest of the year. A full time position (which would ammount to about 19 hours of classes at the high school, added to an hell of a lot of work at home) for 5 different classes in 2 different years.
The thing is that this offer is really tempting and very flattering in a sense. But I just graduated less than 2 months ago, I have no training in being a teacher/teaching/managing a class, how to prepare a class or grade homework and tests...I like helping and I've given some individual lessons for a kid last year but teaching should be a vocation, at least I think so, and while I liked helping that kid, I'm not sure I have that vocation in me. I've always felt more of a calling toward thing like being a nurse/working with kidergarteners or small kids.
The offer is awesome, the pay would be good but I feel like this would be bitting more than I could chew...and I could try and end up seeing I'm miserable at it. That wouldn't be so bad for me...It's only 9 months of my life. But I don't want to be a bad teacher to those kids. Loosing a year to a bad teacher in high school isn't easy to get back.
So my head is spinning...and spinning...and spinning