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Re: just need to get my thoughts on paper...
Posted by OP on 10/23/09

    I wouldn't ask to be let out of your contract...to make a long
    story short, it was only a stroke of luck that I did manage to
    find so many even after being let go. Really, I only had to list
    for the third job my horrible experience in Arizona because the
    second one was a private school, and I was able to snow the guy
    just enough to get on because he thought being an ESL teacher
    where I visit classrooms would make me more successful. I prefer
    not to dwell on it too much; the whole thing is kind of
    depressing. I started this post for closure because I am
    embarking on a career path (more of a "calling", if you will)
    that can be equally as difficult in some respects, yet I reached
    a point after much stubbornness that that is where I need to be.
    These situations that people on this board find themselves in
    are difficult; I can't offer much yet I can offer compassion,
    empathy, and intercessory prayer on their behalf.


    On 10/22/09, Confused wrote:
    > On 10/19/09, Incognito wrote:
    >> In 2007 I received a B.A. in elementary education from a
    >> university in Colorado. I immediately began looking for
    >> teaching jobs, both in-state and out-of-state, and landed
    >> one at a school district in Arizona. To make a long story
    >> short, I did not even last until Christmas. I was placed
    >> in a 6th grade classroom with 35 students that even the
    >> most experienced teacher would have some trouble with. I
    >> made a lot of mistakes and came across as "playing
    >> favorites" which got me in serious hot water with many of
    >> the parents (one who even called me every name in the book
    >> that she could think of during a conference) The stress
    >> literally almost killed me. I was having suicidal thoughts
    >> and almost developed a drinking problem. My marriage
    >> suffered badly, and the people renting my house back home
    >> almost wrecked it because they were remodeling it without
    >> my permission. Well, to make a long story short, they
    >> asked me to resign by Christmas and I did. I didn't give
    >> up (yet) and began looking again, finding a job two weeks
    >> later at a private school in a large city in the colder
    >> eastern U.S. I thought things would go better in this
    >> situation, but they did not. I only had 13 students but
    >> the class was FULL of BEHAVIOR PROBLEMS and I only made it
    >> a month there. When I got there, I was all gung-ho and was
    >> getting ready to go the local grocery store to buy some
    >> school supplies and promptly got into an accident that
    >> disabled my car...so here I am, a thousand miles away from
    >> home, no car, no wife or family, and a class full of
    >> behavior problems. I was out of teaching again that year
    >> by February. I STILL did not give up. I waited until March
    >> and began applying to different districts in my home state
    >> of Colorado once more. I landed a job in as an ESL teacher
    >> in a district in a mountainous part of Colorado. I THOUGHT
    >> that finally, I had found a job where I would be suitable
    >> for, and it kind of was. There were some positives to this
    >> experience, no question. One particular girl said her
    >> FIRST WORDS of english to me and I still, to this day, get
    >> a kick out of that. However, I was an outsider in this
    >> community and was continually (for the first time in my
    >> life) harrassed by law enforcement. Every thing that could
    >> have went wrong, went wrong. Last November things came to
    >> a head when I was arrested for domestic violence. My wife
    >> and I were living in a little holiday rambler trailer and
    >> I hit a little plywood table in frustration and it fell
    >> off its hinges and collapsed. I have LEANED on that table
    >> and have broke it. I was labeled a batterer and ALMOST
    >> lost my teaching job once again. I made the mistake of
    >> telling the police man that I was going to kill myself and
    >> was prompting placed in a suicide smock and kept to myself
    >> at the jail. However, a funny thing happened when I was in
    >> that jail cell. I realized that teaching was probably not
    >> for me. I've always been a spiritual person, so the first
    >> time in quite a while I started praying. I remembered how
    >> when I was sixteen I felt "called" to become a Christian
    >> minister, and so I basically bargained with God. I told
    >> God in my prayer: "All right God, if you get me out of
    >> this and get me my job back I promise you I will take
    >> steps to become a pastor. Just get my job back. And Lord,
    >> if you want me to be a pastor, you've got to work on me, I
    >> have a lot of baggage and I'm no where near ready." (I was
    >> drunk when I prayed this, btw) To make a long story short,
    >> I did eventually get a deferred judgment and was able to
    >> continue at my job. I did not finish the year; I only made
    >> it to March. However, the more I studied becoming a
    >> pastor, the less interested I was in being a teacher and
    >> by March I had already decided that I would not look for
    >> another teaching job at the end of the year. I was
    >> accepted into a nationally-recognized online bible college
    >> and seminary in May and let me tell you, I have enjoyed my
    >> classes ten times as much as I did my education classes! I
    >> guess the moral to my story is that having everything
    >> possible go wrong with me in education these past three
    >> years that maybe, possibly it wasn't meant for me to be a
    >> teacher, at least at the elementary or secondary level.
    >> Examine your motives and whether you are really meant to
    >> be a teacher. If you are and "you know that you know" then
    >> be patient, you will find something. Otherwise, it would
    >> be just like me attempting to fit a square board into a
    >> round peg. As for me, I am going to continue being a
    >> prayer warrior, serve others, and studying my Bible to be
    >> the best pastor possible in the future! Thanks for letting
    >> me get this off my chest.
    >
    > How in the world did you manage to get so many teaching jobs
    > after being let go from different schools! Wow, that is
    > interesting. Whom did you use for references?(lol), Just
    > wondering because I am thiking about asking to be let out of
    > my contract.

     
     

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