Wow...it looks like we have lots of history folks and teachers here!
My undergraduate degree is in Psychology, but I decided halfway through my senior year that I wanted to teach instead. So, I went to grad school in history (I got an assistantship to pay the bills) and earned a Master's degree.
I spent the next three months living in fear that I would end up unemployed, only to have a fabulous teaching job fall into my lap. For the past 14 years, I've taught history to 8th graders. At first, I taught ancient history, but now I teach American.
I LOVE working with 8th graders--I just wish I could say the same for the administration. Sigh!
It's great to get a sense of what all of you do in the real world, and I look forward to getting to know you all better now that summer is almost here. Maybe I'll even have time to get back to that fanfic writing...sigh!
