Next Step

OK now that I have gathered info and have completed my interviews I decided to go out and actually apply for teaching positions, but at the highschool level and the results were interesting. first things first I'm not a certified teacher nor have I completed any certification process. I just wanted to apply just to see what would happen and to get a very clear understanding of it would take just to teach at the secondary level. First I went to the Illinois board of education(located on 14th floor of the Thompson center) and told them that I'm graduating in May and that I did not take any teaching certification course, so I asked them what could I do. They told me that I could apply to an alternate route to teaching program offered at various educational institutions, come to find out this program is at UIC wow!. The told me the different qualifications so I said the hell with it how about substitute teaching and they told me how to apply and what I needed to have so I'm in the process of doing that now and if I'm done before 12:ooam I will blog about it. I know if I can sub the at least I would have a job while I'm contemplating on my next move. Then I got a revelation! my mom is a teacher at Marshall high school so I asked her if I was to sub could she get me in Marshall on a daily basis and she said that she can get me to sub everyday at Marshall. so today I went to Marshall high school to talk to the principal and he said my mom is cool and that he can hook me up. Wow! its not what you know it's who you know. Back to the plan I tried to apply to various educational institutions and it was all for nothing because they just throw your application away if you don't qualify.