Back to School
After two and a bit years of being in the workforce and wandering around grasping for anything resembling a career, I'm back in school again. I'm surprised to admit- I've kind of missed it. A lot. Oh man, textbooks, assigned readings, class discussions, makin' presentations, thinking about being out of school and working as a teacher full time (which I guess means being back in school as well...)... It's just all so great.
The Bachelor of Education program at Aurora College/University of Saskatchewan is a four year program aimed at high school graduates or people who have done some college upgrading courses to bring themselves to that level. Given that I already have my B.A. in a related discipline and some teaching experience, I've been granted a whole pile of transfer credits and should be able to finish by 2014. Not too shabby. I could have just signed up as an occaisional teacher here with my BA and probably would have made plenty of hours to live on, but I'd like to eventually work as a teacher full time. And, more importantly, be able to move South with teaching experience under my belt if we ever end up moving back.
At this point though, I think we might be planning to stay here forever. MK loves his job, he's good at it, and his bosses love him. We both love the area and have made some really good friends here. He's in love with this house, and I think it'd probably be a fantastic place to live, too (cedarrrr, so beautiful). I'd love to get a job at PWK or JBT and just hang out with kids and teachers and settle into making a family of our own. What a fantastic place to have kids. I know I'm getting ahead of myself here, but I feel like I'm finally living, not waiting for something. I spent all of high school waiting to be in university, all of university waiting to be out in the world, when I was working I was waiting to apply for the next promotion or I was struggling to figure out a career plan... It wasn't healthy and I wasn't happy.
And I'm glad to think that I'll be able to help kids figure out all this school stuff that they need to know. Especially in math- a LOT of my classmates were open about hating math or not understanding basic fractions etc. on the first day of our math methods course. I don't know how they think they'll be able to foster a love of learning in their students if their attitude towards a subject taught to all grade levels is apprehension or disdain or dislike. How. I didn't always love math, but I've also gotten over the anxiety I experienced about it in high school. It's not the end of the world, especially elementary level math. I would hope that my children's teachers would at least pretend to enjoy the things they're teaching :(