Saturday, August 8, 2009

What to do, what to do?

So since I have quite a bit of free time, I have decided to take at least one, if not two Additional Qualification course(s) at Western to boost up my resume for applying to schools back home once I'm ready to come back. However, I'm struggling with what AQ course to take. I want to make my teachables more enticing to future employers, so I'm thinking I should take the Additional Basic Mathematics course (oh, the joy), but since I only have one measley math course on my entire four year transcript, I think I have to take another math course FIRST (again, the joy) before I can take math as a teachable. I really want to take "The Novel" and write about books again, but adding English as a teachable isn't really what the boards want to see. Oh, but imagine reading for a purpose again and writing opinion papers on literary works? I really do want to be an English teacher, despite my father's warnings about marking countless badly-written essays. Hmmm...I think the truth is though, I would like to teach to students who were like me as an English student. You know, those who knew what iambic pentameter was. I don't know that there are many out there. Or ever WERE many out there. Maybe that's why Mr. Bereza was so sore all the time.


I've emailed the manager of continuing education at Althouse, and I'm waiting to hear back about what she thinks. In the interim, I could take Guidance or Special Education, as most of my peers have done, but is it really worth the nearly $1000 tutition? Argh...another crossroad.

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