I am officially a TEACHER! I finished my Bachelors degree in 18 months, I did my teacher certification program, my student teaching for 12 weeks, and thousands of dollars in exams for the most valuable piece of paper (next to my marriage license and our son's birth certificate!) I'll ever own.
Now... here's the HARD part. Finding a job! As students learning to be teachers, we have such delusions of graduer about our "dream classroom" and what it's going to be like to finally be a teacher. No one prepares you for the frustration and disappointment of trying to find a job that is saturated with candidates (most with more experience than you), or budget cuts, layoffs and competition.
