Teach For America Bound

I have an opportunity to be a teacher.  The program is called Teach For America.  What happens is that the program sends me to one of the five boroughs in New York to teach..I get some training and the starting salary as any first-time teacher.

What I’m saying is that this school is packed with courses that helps me prepare for Teach For America.  I’m taking education and sociology courses (the school has too many to count, anywhere between fifteen and twenty); one of them starts me off by examining diverse cultural backgrounds of students and teachers; ways where these differences affect the practice of schooling; the nature of “education that is multicultural”, linking these issues of school culture, educational policy, community relations, curriculum, classroom interactions, teaching styles, student learning, grouping practices, labeling, assessment and the need to develop strategies for the improvement of educational practice.

You know what else?  Race, class, gender, ethnicity, religion, disability and sexual orientation and the effects on schooling.

That’s a lot.

And there you go.  I was clueless as a freshman.  Now it’s Teach For America.  If you feel like pursuing a teaching career, you’re in a good place.  Take chances guys, and enjoy it.