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- LETTERS, Page 6Teaching as a Second Career
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- I'm a certified public accountant who defected to teaching
- in mid-career (EDUCATION, Feb. 13). I agree that some educators
- are prejudiced against people like me because of our lack of
- formal teacher training, but these critics have never entered
- my classroom and have no idea what my instruction methods are.
- The students know. One of mine asked, "You didn't take any of
- those teacher-training courses, did you?"
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- "No," I said. "Is that bad?"
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- "It's good," she replied. "Your classes are interesting."
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- I teach accounting, so I consider that quite a compliment.
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- Roger A. Gee, Assistant Professor Mesa College San
- Diego
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- The experts make it sound as if those of us who have been
- in the education profession from the start live in a vacuum and
- can't offer the "life experiences" that mid-career people can.
- I've been teaching for 19 years, and I guarantee a fresh, vital
- lesson to my students every day.
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- Edward Lee Gift Hagerstown, Md.
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