Re: Burnt out

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CR: I can understand the feeling of being "burned out" by being
in typical school environments. I wonder if it is the college
you are attending? Some are not quite the independent learning
set up one expects at your age with tons of required not too
interesting classes. My first degree was in art and design and
I did not take any education classes as I had no interest in
ever being a teacher. However, I did not like many of my core
classes that were required for a liberal arts degree. My
favorite classes were my electives that I chose. I did not find
Montessori until I was in my early 30's and I realized then
that all of my previous life experiences including my first
degree and work experiences, no matter how seemingly unrelated
they were to what I was going into, all seemed to fall together
and it pointed exactly to what I was meant to do Montessori. Up
to then, I just had not found my passion. Unfortuneately, it
sounds more like you are going to the familiar to escape what
you are feeling as "dead end". I am a firm believer that
everything one does in life has a purpose, even though it
doesn't make sense at that time.

I think I would hold off from going into Montessori. You might
find out that you miss some really great opportunities of
working in public Montessori schools down the road because you
lacked your college degree. Your degree should be the stepping
stone to Montessori. When I used to teach classroom management
at our local training center, I saw a huge gap in student
performance from the women who had college degrees and those
going into Montessori training with little or no college
experience. Maturity played a part in that, but the added life
experience for those degreed teachers in training were such a
plus.

My suggestion is to continue your degree, perhaps change
majors. I would either get a part time assistant position in an
authentic Montessori school during the school year(half days)
or maybe as an assistant for a summer program in a good
Montessori school. I would hold off on the on line training. If
you find a great school who is a good match for you, the
possibility of that school paying for all or most of your
training would be so much better.

There also are universities and colleges that offer Master's
degrees in Montessori.

Hang in there. It always seems "dead end" sometime in school,
and perhaps you just have not found the choices of classes that
can excite you. Good luck. maureen

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