Gettin' schooled
It's official. I am going to Queen's in September to get my B.Ed. in Intermediate/Senior education with (fingers crossed) a program focus on teaching at-risk youth and young adults, and an elective in Aboriginal education. I am going to be a high school science teacher. Well, I am going to be qualified to become a high school science teacher. :-) Considering my high school physics teacher actually had a degree in nutrition, it's entirely possible that I might not end up teaching my teachable... but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it, right?
Queen's extended an offer of admission on April 1st... I checked again on April 2nd to make sure it wasn't a cruel joke... and I accepted their offer on April 3rd, the earliest date I possible could. I have since confirmed and reconfirmed that my acceptance was confirmed. :-) I am not going to retract my acceptance to the cooking program at St. Lawrence until I get a formal letter from Queen's, because I am a slight paranoiac, but for all intents and purposes, it is official.
It took me a very long time to finally decide what I wanted to be when I (eventually) grow up. I don't know why I didn't go into teaching right off the bat. I love science, and I love helping people understand it so they can love it as much as I do. You'd think teaching would be the obvious choice. Yet, somehow, I ended up a copy-editor. Similar, but not the same. I find the papers I edit interesting, but I can't say I've ever been passionate about sentence fragments, comma splices, or split infinitives (which are perfectly acceptable in English, by the way... get over yourselves, grammar nazis). And though I know their intended purpose, I continue to use ellipses incorrectly. So, obviously, copy-editing just wasn't meant to be.
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My high school physics teacher graduated from RMC. I think he had a degree in physics, oddly enough.
I think this is really exciting! You're going to be a fantastic science teacher. And you'll be doubly qualified to grade your students' essay questions on your exams ;-)
Posted by: heather at April 8, 2008 08:33 PM
You will TOTALLY teach sciences. A woman who is qualified for science at the high school level gets what she wants! Might be the only job these days where women with "non-traditional" type training get the one-up.
Posted by: stefanie at May 1, 2008 02:35 PM