Re: teaching as a profession

[Guest guest]

Dawn:

There are other ways of teaching a class. Use a motorized chair and a computer,

notebook one for example. Then use a screen to show your notes. Use

educational technology to teach. Its the new thing, all teachers and professors

are using it now. This is the 2000 century. If money is a problem, don't

worry, your state has a Bureau of Rehabiltiation office to pay individuals with

disaiblities to go back to school.

I hope the best for you.

[Guest guest]

Hi Dawn,

I am not sure I picked the right major... While lab work at college was a

challenge, hard but fun, working in a lab daily after college was very

difficult. After two years doing the same experiments, I just realized that I

didn't want to do it anymore. I was tired (both physicially and mentally).

Fortunatelly, the company where I work has a great environment and changing to

computer work, mainly with research information, writing scientific papers of

the company's research, translations and things like that, it has worked out

well.

If I could go back, I think would have chosen something else, maybe literature,

which I like also. On the other hand, it feels good when you struggle and then

achive what you want, when you don't take the easy way out.

I don't know how severely affected you are by CMT, but I have always found it

difficult to write on the chalkboard. In school we had to do maths assignments

on the chalkboard sometimes, and my writing was barely legible. But nowdays,

they use whiteboards in schools, and I could think of more aids for a teacher

with CMT.

For example using a computer+projector. That means the teacher could write on a

computer and the kids could see it via the projector. We use this method for

meetings where I work. My tip for everybody is: If you really want to do it, you

can! But you have to want it... But then you can also use your education in

other areas then teaching, I hope you are doing that already!

Beata