This morning, I accepted an offer to teach at Fort Worth's Applied Learning Center! I've had three interviews there--one with the principal, one with the teaching team, and I taught a demonstration lesson.
It's a K-1 position: I'll teach Kindergarten starting in the fall, and then the following year I'll teach first grade with the same group of students.
Wow--Kindergarten. That's going to be an adjustment. And I'm more than a little scared.
The ALC uses the project model of education with emphasis on applying learning to the world outside the classroom. They use authentic assessment with portfolios as well as the state-required standardized tests. It's like the Mecca of teaching in Fort Worth ISD. I'm still in joyful disbelief that they offered me, a teacher with little experience, such a sought-after position!
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woot! I understand your excitement! I just got a job at an engineering firm that's quite prestigious. If I stay on part time (and they work around school schedules in the fall, with full-time during breaks) for the 2 years I'm left in school, then I'll automatically have a job right out of college!
Scary, but oh so exciting! I wish I could play with kids all day...but I figure that'll happen when we start a family.
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Woohoo for Roper and Glumirk! BTW, Roper, I can honestly say that if we ever sent our kid back to public school, I would hope that he had a teacher like you.
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Roper, this is such great news! I was just talking with an older gentleman who started the chapter of AWANA here. He was saying how you need to reach children young in the preschool age group. How wonderful that you are going to teach during such a forminative time. Also, I think it will be great continuity to have the same students two years in a row.
Congrats Roper! 1st grade is the most amazing grade... the children go from barely knowing the ABCs to reading... It's such a huge transition... if only every grade made so much progress...
--Ray
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Ray, you just know that you'd be teaching the kids how to play hooky without their parents catching on.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
There would also be a class to teach kids the appropriate way to do really important stuff like wet willies, swirlies, slap bets, pull my finger, planting corn, indian rope burns, and other things every kids should know. They will learn songs like Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory of the Burning of the School, On Top of Spighetti, Ms Suzy Had a Steam Boat, and Did You Ever Think When the Hurse Drives By. No kids education is complete without this stuff.
Remember, if they get out of line, you can always smite them with your priesthood pow--- oh, wait. That's just not right. 
