I’m just beginning this little foray into academia as a certified teacher. After 32 years in medicine, I thought teaching would be a logical “next step”since I did it so often in a hospital setting and loved it. I see the public schools as “entry level”. What I have seen in the past 5 years gives me nightmares- about our education system, our next generation of potential “leaders” and a MASSIVE headache!
Since I’ve spent so many years in the university setting, I suppose that is where I will end up. A nice little private school would be the most wonderful (sigh), but THOSE jobs are snatched up faster than fried chicken by the best teachers. It must be wonderful to be in a school where the parents actually have an incentive to control their kids...
“Since I’ve spent so many years in the university setting, I suppose that is where I will end up. A nice little private school would be the most wonderful (sigh), but THOSE jobs are snatched up faster than fried chicken by the best teachers. It must be wonderful to be in a school where the parents actually have an incentive to control their kids...”
A suggestion. Have you considered doing some tutoring? There are people out there who do tutoring in the sense of remedial education and special subjects (and make pretty good money doing it).
One market I see and haven’t seen a lot of people looking to address is tutoring in the general sense of what I’d term “microschooling.” One of the challenges that I see for home education is that it tends to be an all-or-nothing proposition. You either send your kids to a government or private school, OR one parent stays at home and essentially home educates full time. I don’t see why it needs to be so cut and dry. I do think that kids (as well as parents) benefit from some variety in teaching skills.
There is also the economic issue. I think that a lot of parents would love to home educate, but can’t quite swing having one parent completely quit the workforce to do so. Again, a modified form of tutoring or “microschooling” could help in those kinds of situations.
Wintertime: your insights would be appreciated.