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As you can tell my blog posts are limited while I continue to prep for my return to college. I’m excited about some of the classes I’m going to be taking, even though depending on what my new advisor says, some of those classes may be changing. Don’t get me wrong, I love my AISS advisor, but I’m looking into going for a Bachelors of Education so I’m supposed to have a different advisor to be sure I have the correct GER classes.
Here’s where my choices dilemma and stress comes in. There’s two things I’d like to do with an Education degree, neither I'm certain I have the natural skills required to do well. One is teaching creative writing (grade lvl I'm not sure about) and the other is ASL interpreter. Now the cool thing is the college has full majors in ASL, Interpreter, and teaching B-5 grade lvl for deaf and hard of hearing students.
As a person who knows how frustrating it can be to overcome a communication barrier I love the idea of doing that kind of work (working in service to the deaf community), however until I get into my first ASL class I don’t know how good I will be with sign language, or how well I will pick it up. I’m hoping my education within theatre and body langue expressiveness and the fact that I’m more kinesics than visional will help me in doing and learning sign. Once I finish and test through the first 4 semesters of ASL then I can take the cultural and ethics part of the ASL program which looks challenging as well as interesting.
With my love of fiction writing and poetry, and my desire to serve youth and my community in some capacity, the idea of teaching creative writing also appeals to me. Now I know I’m no way skilled enough to teach anyone anything…yet, but I hope to grow and learn a great deal in school on that path. I can’t tell how many years I wasted believing my ADD and dyslexia (even before I understood what my LDs were) would keep me from writing anything worthwhile.
Three novels and four novella contracts later (not even counting the number of short stories) I proved that personal dismissal to be completely false. I think what I like most about the idea of teaching creative writing is the idea of stirring up the confidence of other hopeful writers who much be letting doubts like those hold them back. I don’t think I get grammar and the tech end of things well enough to teach English as a whole, but I’m hopeful my passion for the fiction end of writing will help my chances of teaching that well.
The most important thing now is to be sure the GER classes I take this semester will work for either choice of career. After 20 years out of school I think I really need one semester at least to help me gauge the difficulty of keeping up and where I’m having problems. I may even find I am better at some things then I though I would be because of my years of life experiences. I’ve even been told I might be able to use some of my life experiences for earned college credits, too. I’m looking into that.
Well, back to another week of meetings and prep. I’ll keep ya’ll posted.
Here’s where my choices dilemma and stress comes in. There’s two things I’d like to do with an Education degree, neither I'm certain I have the natural skills required to do well. One is teaching creative writing (grade lvl I'm not sure about) and the other is ASL interpreter. Now the cool thing is the college has full majors in ASL, Interpreter, and teaching B-5 grade lvl for deaf and hard of hearing students.
As a person who knows how frustrating it can be to overcome a communication barrier I love the idea of doing that kind of work (working in service to the deaf community), however until I get into my first ASL class I don’t know how good I will be with sign language, or how well I will pick it up. I’m hoping my education within theatre and body langue expressiveness and the fact that I’m more kinesics than visional will help me in doing and learning sign. Once I finish and test through the first 4 semesters of ASL then I can take the cultural and ethics part of the ASL program which looks challenging as well as interesting.
With my love of fiction writing and poetry, and my desire to serve youth and my community in some capacity, the idea of teaching creative writing also appeals to me. Now I know I’m no way skilled enough to teach anyone anything…yet, but I hope to grow and learn a great deal in school on that path. I can’t tell how many years I wasted believing my ADD and dyslexia (even before I understood what my LDs were) would keep me from writing anything worthwhile.
Three novels and four novella contracts later (not even counting the number of short stories) I proved that personal dismissal to be completely false. I think what I like most about the idea of teaching creative writing is the idea of stirring up the confidence of other hopeful writers who much be letting doubts like those hold them back. I don’t think I get grammar and the tech end of things well enough to teach English as a whole, but I’m hopeful my passion for the fiction end of writing will help my chances of teaching that well.
The most important thing now is to be sure the GER classes I take this semester will work for either choice of career. After 20 years out of school I think I really need one semester at least to help me gauge the difficulty of keeping up and where I’m having problems. I may even find I am better at some things then I though I would be because of my years of life experiences. I’ve even been told I might be able to use some of my life experiences for earned college credits, too. I’m looking into that.
Well, back to another week of meetings and prep. I’ll keep ya’ll posted.