An unexpected teaching opportunity…almost
I’d been looking at Craigslist for days. Every day.
Faithfully checking it.
Which is difficult to sit and sift through.
And then I found it. ‘Philadelphia school seeks a full-time French teacher for immediate opening’. What more could I have hoped for or wanted in seeking a French teaching position…
And I went for the interview. My first professional teaching interview.
Surprisingly, it went way better than I had imagined. I got to be my genuine self and I wasn’t too nervous. They asked me questions I had anticipated and some I hadn’t, but overall it was not too nerve-wracking.
As I begun to think about if I could really teach 5 French courses a day, 5 days a week, at a school at least 45 minutes away from home, I questioned the paradox- could I ask for enough in a salary to make it worth my while considering the actual teaching time plus planning and transport? Would it be too much to ask considering I had no previous teaching experience (besides a few classes and the Summer Practicum)?
I eventually realized after much deliberation, that this would not in fact be the job for me. Had I had a year or two in the classroom, or if I had had all summer to do lesson plans and preparation, it might have been different.
It also brought up the issue of if I asked for too low of a salary then when I got my Masters it would be difficult to ask for a huge pay jump.
Such is life. I was so close, yet so far.
At least I got that interview out of the way and now know that they are not terrifying and daunting, just people wanting to know about you and your qualifications.