You'll enjoy this....a couple of years ago I applied for a part-time "instructor" position at the local technical college. The position was teaching adult-ed/corporate customers computer programs. Although I don't have a Master's Degree and never took any "teacher prep education courses", I was hired because.......I homeschooled my son and was also totally self-taught in the computer programs they wanted me to teach. I'm still teaching there and have also been picked-up to teach at the local university in their adult-ed program. They wanted someone who could be a self-starter in creating curriculm and could answer questions "on the fly" not just follow a book or lesson plan. Adults ask questions and don't want to hear that it's not in the chapter or some such. They need real world answers to their questions.
Dear 2nd amendment mama,
LOL! That's a great story!
We're thinking that for high school, we might send our guys to the Catholic high school from which I graduated. To help with the tuition and related costs (for both, it would be over $25,000 per year), my wife was thinking that in a few years, she might go back to work, at least to get the guys through high school.
She was fretting about this with her friend, who is the head of the art department at another local Catholic school. My wife's degree is in art, and the friend said, oh, you can come work with me, teaching here at the school.
My wife protested that how could she be qualified to teach, she didn't have any sort of education credentials.
My wife's friend laughed hysterically, "First, CATHOLIC SCHOOLS DON'T CARE ABOUT EDUCATION CREDENTIALS!! If you know you're field, we'd be inclined to give you a job. Second, as to your teaching credentials, JUST WHAT HAVE YOU BEEN DOING THE LAST SIX AND A HALF YEARS??? You have more teaching experience then LOTS of our faculty had when they first started, and they did just fine, too!"
Personally, having taught at the high school level, the college level, and to professionals in corporate settings, I can vouch for my wife's teaching abilities. Like most moms, she's made an outstanding teacher.
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