Teaching As A Next Step
Tuesday, March 2
6:00-7:00 p.m. Vollum 120

Join a panel of teachers and school staff for this timely and important panel. Learn answers to some of the many questions you may have about a career as a teacher/educator: Why do people choose education as the way in which they wish to serve their community? What are the payoffs and the downsides?  Why do these panelists continue in education? We are asking them to come prepared to address the question of what option are available without a teaching certificate and what do they have to say about local teaching programs.

This will be a conversation - come with your questions!

Panelists
Stephen Karmol BA Evergreen '03, MAT Evergreen '09
Employer: CLASS Academy (the Cantlon Learning Academy for Spectacular Students) in NW Portland. Teases students 2.5 to 5 years old. His teacher page is here.

Lurline Sweet '06 English
After graduation from Reed, Lurline began teaching as a part time Spanish teacher in a private school and was an afterschool tutor in a middle school under the No Child Left Behind Act. She worked for a year with the Bus Project and started her MAT through The Intellect, Characer, Creativity Institute (ICCI) at Marylhurst College in the fall of '08. As part of her master's, she is a teaching apprentice at Arbor School of Arts and Sciences. Lurline will complete her MAT in May.

Whitney Mims '09 Classics
Whitney is currently a substitute paraeducator (a teacher's aide in special education classes) for Portland Public Schools. Because of her experience in various classrooms around the district, Whitney is applying to get her master's in Special Education with an emphasis in autism.

Matt Parker '02 Whitman College
Matt earned his BA in Anthropology at Whitman College in 2002. After 2 years of AmeriCorps and a year as an assistant, he earned a MAT at Pacific U. in '06. Since then Matt has taught language arts and social studies at Ron Russell Middle School in David Douglas School  District.

Carmen Ellis, Pre-school teacher, Metro Kids (details to follow)

Susan Anglada Bartley, M.Ed.
B.A. History and Literature of Marginalized Communities in America, New York University
M.Ed Portland State University
Teaching is not a regular profession, it is a calling. If you want to teach, get ready to solicit your deepest confidence, have your heart broken repeatedly, and see miracles happen regularly. Prepare for a war that you fight alone with no weapons other than these gifts you bring called hope and knowledge.