Re: [seul-edu] First posting/intro to seul-edu

[Dave Prentice <dprentice@uno.edu>]

Stephen,
    Good for you! Welcome to the world of high school. I too did a midlife
career change 3 years ago, after 27 years in the computer industry. (I did
take all the ed courses, though.) Teaching high schoolers is at the same
time the most frustrating and most rewarding thing I've ever done. The key
is to fall in love with your kids. Until they know how much you care, they
don't care how much you know.
All the best to you.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen C. Daukas <stephen@daukas.com>
To: seul-edu@seul.org <seul-edu@seul.org>
Date: Thursday, March 14, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: [seul-edu] First posting/intro to seul-edu


>Greetings!
>
>In accordance with a request in the majordomo welcome message:
>
> > We invite you to send a brief introduction of yourself to the list, so
> > we can keep track of what resources we have available and who our
> > audience is.
>
>Here is a brief introduction...
>
>I am a brand new educator.  I have 20 years experience in high-tech as a
>computer, software & systems engineer, and also spent time in various
>management roles.  I have used UNIX for a good portion of that 20 years,
>Linux the last few years.  I am one of the core active members of WLUG -
>Worcester Linux Users Group - and am nearly finished building my own "ISP"
>in my basement using Red Hat, PHP, MySQL, etc..  I have just made the
>transition to education.
>
>I am a so-called mid-career professional who is waiting to hear whether I
>will be accepted into the Massachusetts Institute for New Teachers (MINT),
>an accelerated summer program that allows mid-career types to break into
>teaching.  I have passed Massachusetts' "teacher's exam" and am
>provisionally certified to teach Science.  Provisionally because I have no
>teaching course work nor spent any time student teaching (hence the MINT
>program).
>
>I have some background in teaching from college, where I was a teaching
>fellow, and have also taught a few courses in industry (seminars, week-long
>courses, etc.).  Of course, this in no way prepares me for teaching in
>Public Schools!  ;-)
>
>I will be teaching an elective course on Linux beginning March 25th to 11th
>& 12th graders, but will post a separate thread on this subject to this
list...
>
>Regards,
>Steve
>
>