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excellent answer.wert3813 wrote: If you were a former corps member I would look you in the eyes tell you what I said above (which is true) and then tell you that I felt like I was making the problem worse not better (true), that 76 teachers applied for the job I got (true), that at the end of the year I could come up with a lot of reasons to teach a second year but none of them involved me thinking I could in any way be transformational towards my kids.
Yes....maybe you are a teeny tiny region and this is just your region? PM me the region. Hawaii?wert3813 wrote:
My CMA. You're including those who quit before the first day of school year one?
Worked for TFA for a summer. Best friend now an MTLD.wert3813 wrote:You work for TFA? If so I'll be happy to believe that you are correct and I'm not.
As a non-corps member I thought that answer sounded like shit. What am I missing here? Did he use lot of TFA mission statement buzz words (i.e. "transformational")? Is it the fact that other (likely long term) teachers wanted the position? What gives?emkay625 wrote:excellent answer.wert3813 wrote: If you were a former corps member I would look you in the eyes tell you what I said above (which is true) and then tell you that I felt like I was making the problem worse not better (true), that 76 teachers applied for the job I got (true), that at the end of the year I could come up with a lot of reasons to teach a second year but none of them involved me thinking I could in any way be transformational towards my kids.
Yup, lots of TFA buzzwords. Also, more TFA corps members think that TFA should be used in places where there are teacher shortages. If he was unhappy and inexperienced and 76 other people wanted the job, why should he be there? This is in direct contrast to my school - we couldn't get enough applications no matter how high the pay was.EvilClinton wrote:As a non-corps member I thought that answer sounded like shit. What am I missing here? Did he use lot of TFA mission statement buzz words (i.e. "transformational")? Is it the fact that other (likely long term) teachers wanted the position? What gives?emkay625 wrote:excellent answer.wert3813 wrote: If you were a former corps member I would look you in the eyes tell you what I said above (which is true) and then tell you that I felt like I was making the problem worse not better (true), that 76 teachers applied for the job I got (true), that at the end of the year I could come up with a lot of reasons to teach a second year but none of them involved me thinking I could in any way be transformational towards my kids.
????? Seriously, what shady region is this. This is ridiculous.wert3813 wrote:
Three months into the job my department head admitted that administration turned down an NBC (National Board Certified--basically a good teacher) who was fluent in Spanish to hire me. I was mortified.
You- "Public interest isn't for me."Bildungsroman wrote:I'd be much more concerned about how potential employers will respond.
I have no idea. I can answer any questions you have about any of the Texas regions, but have no idea about how the Appalachia region works. Sorry!TheThriller wrote:Is there any info on the new Appalachia regional assignment for TFA. I may be taking a year (or 2 in the case of TFA) off before LS/if I need to retake.
Essentially this. I worked in schools right out of college and got asked why I wasn't going back to teaching. A simple, brief, inoffensive explanation about how you came to realize teaching isn't the career path for you should be just fine.Desert Fox wrote:You- "Public interest isn't for me."Bildungsroman wrote:I'd be much more concerned about how potential employers will respond.