If you're a teacher, I'd like your input. After my partner finishes his engineering degree, I'm planning on getting an MAT in English so that I can teach high school (or maybe college). I'd appreciate any advice, tips, warnings, caveats, "stay the hell away from this field" warnings, encouragement, discouragement, etc, that you can throw at me.
Specific questions I have:
1) How crazy are teenagers these days? How much of your day is spent managing misbehaving students versus actually teaching? How do you control your students? On a related note, how do you manage the parents of your students?
2) How do you manage your lesson plans? Specifically, how do lesson plans work on a daily basis? Do you spend your summers making lesson plans for the whole school year, or do you make lesson plans as you go?
3) Am I crazy to attempt a teaching career knowing that I have a raging case of ADHD which limits my ability to focus and organize time properly?
4) Can I teach college with only a MAT, or do I need a PhD? I'm mostly interested in teaching high school at the moment, but I may want to move into teaching college at some point.
I'll take your comments either as e-mails or as responses to this post - your choice.
Thanks!
