Teaching and Me
When you have kids, you do a lot of teaching when you aren't even aware of it: besides helping wih homework, how to make a bed, do the laundry, clean house, cooking, etc.
When I was a Camp Fire Girl leader I learned new skills so I could teach my girls, everything from knot tying to all kinds of camping cooking inlcuding cooking a turkey underground, backpacking in the mountains, and putting on plays to earn money for our trip to the Grand Canyon.
While reading Job Opportunities in the paper I found one for a teacher of pre-school for handicapped kids. I thought handicapped meant kids in wheelchairs, turned out it was for kids with developmental disabilities. I was interviewed but the job went to a credentialed kindergarten teacher. She lasted a week. I was hired and taught there for 10 years.During that time I obtained an AA in Child Devleopment and became a credentialed pre-school and child care teacher.
I held various teaching position in day cares and pre-schools.
When I became an Administrator of and owned my own licensed residential facility, I had lots of opportunities to teach the developmentally disabled women skills who lived in our home.
When it became apparent our area needed to have it's own Administrator and then Continuing Education Classes, I learned what I needed from the Department of Social Services,and orgnaized and set up the classes, teaching all the classes on regulations. That went on past the time I retired from having the residential facility (over 20 years.)
I've taught writing classes in my home and various other places over the years. I've also taught Sunday School classes to almost every age, including nursery aged kids up through high school.
As you can probablyfigure out from how many years this has been going on, my teaching now is limited to my 4th and 5th grade Sunday School class. How long I'll be able to do this, I don't know.
So I didn't do the kind of teaching my mother hoped for, but I've had a great and varied teaching history.
Marilyn
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