I was thrown into a classroom....with a curriculum designed by my AP and run off as a series of handouts for HS students.....how to write for an academic environment. "What is a topic senctence....and so on." I had the English credits. The basics of writing were good....by graduation some could write a basic paragraph. Or short essay.
I was thrown into a classroom....with a curriculum designed by my AP and run off as a series of handouts for HS students.....how to write for an academic environment. "What is a topic senctence....and so on." I had the English credits. The basics of writing were good....by graduation some could write a basic paragraph. Or short essay.
First semester teaching: One student took out a white drug , made a line and snorted it..... I was told I had to administer some state or city test. It was bedlam. The kids just passed around the papers. I survived as you say for the next 25 years. So yes I got tenure. So did most of the young people I was working with who had come to teaching from a variety of paths. Mine...I needed work. Most of us were fine teachers. I was required to get my MA while teaching. Eventually, I learned the tricks of the trade. I devoted myself to being an educator.
I was thrown into a classroom....with a curriculum designed by my AP and run off as a series of handouts for HS students.....how to write for an academic environment. "What is a topic senctence....and so on." I had the English credits. The basics of writing were good....by graduation some could write a basic paragraph. Or short essay.
First semester teaching: One student took out a white drug , made a line and snorted it..... I was told I had to administer some state or city test. It was bedlam. The kids just passed around the papers. I survived as you say for the next 25 years. So yes I got tenure. So did most of the young people I was working with who had come to teaching from a variety of paths. Mine...I needed work. Most of us were fine teachers. I was required to get my MA while teaching. Eventually, I learned the tricks of the trade. I devoted myself to being an educator.