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One of my colleague got a better job she is employed as professor in college we were working together in NGO for poor children.
She is asking me to study further and get a teachers training like D.Ed or B.Ed

But i am too petrified of teaching in regular schools the principal or headmistress are always on a round they keep inspecting you and take regular demo's

I am comfortable working for the NGO sector teaching poor kids and though this is a low paying job somehow mentally i am not terrified.

I would have to leave this job and get admitted in D.ed college and learn for 2 years its full time and there is lot of project work. But i am confused about what is expected after those 2 years.

I mean will i get decent job or would just keep working in underpaid jobs....because i already have a montessory teachers training and I am not using it because of fear, low confidence etc.

So what is opinion of others here.

I believe that an academic career could be good for many Aspies. Professors are even expected to be a little weird. Intensive concentration on narrow issues is what research is all about, and promotion and tenure depend primarily on research at most universities. Of course, departmental and school politics have more importance than administrators will pretend, so you need some personal relationships with the right people. I believe, however, that the academic requirements for those relationships are much less than in private industry.
Keep in mimd that a PhD is required for most academic positions. If you want to enter a PhD program, you should first find what happened to all of the people who entered the program eight years ago. Actual completion rates are much worse than most program directors will pretend.
I am a tenured professor, so it has been fine for me. On the other hand, my Aspergers is fairly mild.

Apart from asperger i also suffer from PTSD, Depression, Mood swings so higher education wont be valuable for me

I'm the States, there are more teachers than jobs. There are people with teaching certificates with masters degrees taking substitute teacher jobs that pay $75-$140 day. The latest scam is school districts advertising for more subs than there can ever be jobs for. All the grief, none of the benefits.

I've heard to get a public school teaching job now, it's all who you know and are related to. My teacher friends are leaving in droves because of the teaching to the test nonsense.

Here, the district, principal and parents are always in your face. Public, Private, Chartered, the stress is the same. And you work longer than you get paid for. My teacher friends always spend a good hour after school trying to catch up or come in on the weekend. Of course, unpaid.

If you aren't the faster, happier, more dynamic, knowing someone in the inside rat, your resume will get buried with the other 500 people applying for 4 district positions.

Scroll around proteacher.net for the real scoop on teaching.

Was the NGO out of your country of origin? Because here, poor kids are no different than well off kids. You just have the bonus round of the bulk of the parents have checked out. Kids will eat you alive at age 4 or 18 if they think they can.

There is a big difference "helping out", and having the buck stop with you. As a teacher, you gotta make all this nonsense happen, and you are the boss. I can't imagine there won't be lesson plans, reports, justification paper work, and the snoopy bureaucrat in a NGO setting.

If you have your heart set on it, go for it. But frankly, I work as a support staff at an elementary school. I don't know how those teachers do it day in and out, and deal with our psycho micromanaging administration.

[quote="Tawaki"
If you aren't the faster, happier, more dynamic, knowing someone in the inside rat, your resume will get buried with the other 500 people applying for 4 district positions.[/quote]
yes i am not faster, happier or more dynamic and definitely i will get buried with others for sure im so meek and i fumble all the while.

there are too much of lesson plans there is weekly lesson plan, daily log sheet and daily DEL form of each lesson we teach. The teaching method involves charts, flash cards, templates which we have to prepare. and of course supervisor, hierarchy and bureaucracy which just eats the head.

I wont go into higher education related to teaching the working environment for teachers is too bad.....i have experienced that and it doesnt suit me.