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Gráinne · 07-02-2015, 09:38 PM

And what do you know? A new job opportunity showed up, in a good district.

The plusses: Smaller classes, a far smaller district, great support (I think) from the administration and the principal.

The minuses: It's teaching high school mathematics! I "accidentally" qualified myself to teach math through the licensing and testing process, but it wasn't something I really saw myself teaching. I got into teaching science because it's very concrete and visible. For example, I can describe a rock in my hand. We can see the weather. In contrast, math is very abstract: most of us learned math in school by listening to the teacher, reading the textbook, and doing innumerable worksheets. That's not what I want to do.

The unbelievably tasty risk before me (if I am offered the position, which is pretty likely): how to make abstract and somewhat remote concepts more "visible" and "solid", like science. How can I help my students overcome "math fear" and the crushing boredom of worksheets?

It's teaching, yes, but a whole new career

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07-02-2015, 09:38 PM	#11
Gráinne Senior Member How Do You Identify?: Neither, nada, out of the box Preferred Pronoun?: My name always works Relationship Status: Happy whatever happens Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Little Rock Posts: 1,866 My Photo Gallery Thanks: 2,120 Thanked 7,394 Times in 1,459 Posts Rep Power: 21474853	And what do you know? A new job opportunity showed up, in a good district. The plusses: Smaller classes, a far smaller district, great support (I think) from the administration and the principal. The minuses: It's teaching high school mathematics! I "accidentally" qualified myself to teach math through the licensing and testing process, but it wasn't something I really saw myself teaching. I got into teaching science because it's very concrete and visible. For example, I can describe a rock in my hand. We can see the weather. In contrast, math is very abstract: most of us learned math in school by listening to the teacher, reading the textbook, and doing innumerable worksheets. That's not what I want to do. The unbelievably tasty risk before me (if I am offered the position, which is pretty likely): how to make abstract and somewhat remote concepts more "visible" and "solid", like science. How can I help my students overcome "math fear" and the crushing boredom of worksheets? It's teaching, yes, but a whole new career . __________________ The odds of going to the store for a loaf of bread and coming out with only a loaf of bread are three billion to one. ~Erma Bombeck