Any Aspie Teachers out there?

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Well a few did it to impersonate me (cowardly cyberbullying, if you ask me). They couldn't solve whatever issues they had in real life so they had to cowardly impersonate me online...but that's not illegal, just pathetic.

My big concern is that they don't fire me as a new teacher someday just because I'm considered odd. That much is probably unavoidable, the being considered odd part, but I'm working on the not irritating people so much that they ask the boss to fire me part. The problem can be solved by minimizing social interaction and never making work friends.

-Frank

I have had a co-worker treat me a lot less favourably than the other co-workers at the school. It's pretty obvious she hates me because I did a musical production and she was part of the planning team (what team? I ask) but then she only communicated with the other staff and not me. I have the production tonight and I feel like telling her off afterwards. I have told the principal of the school what she has done (the isolation, the ignoring me in the staff room) and she teaches small children! She's a good teacher but hard to get along with and there has been tension between us for months and it was very hard to get this concert ready, but here goes.

anybody still in this thread?
I am a new member and I was really interested in finding people out there who are considered freaks in everyday life but thrive when it comes to teaching. for me, this is the only possible way to communicate with people normally and make good stable relationships. I teach 4-6-year-olds. I'm struggling with the parents though, and it took me ages to prove myself and it was very difficult to get the job in the first place and then hang on until the kids were settled and the good results started coming. teaching is the best thing that has ever happened to me!
- maybe I am not an aspie after all?!

A career I'm thinking about is being an art or an English teacher
Probably Grade 5 or 6?
I would love the repeative work of report cards and marking, but I'm not good at teaching a whole group of people. Maybe I would be a better tutor?

Taught music privately and as a high school instructor; worked as a trainer for a couple years. It's a role I understand how to function in.


M.

I've been a secondary school teacher (I think the US equivalent is High School) in the UK for 5 years, teaching Maths, IT, Science (Physics, Chemistry and Biology) and Business Studies.

I'm a qualified Physics teacher.

EDIT: The ages of the kids I teach are 11-18.

Wow!! !! I thought I was the only Aspie teacher in the world. Im soooooooooo happy!! !!
Im a trained Primary KS2 teacher (ages 7-11). Ive worked in London for 3 years and became special needs co-ordinator. I left London in 2005. Now Im teaching English in Japan. Ive been doing that 3 years now.
I agree. The hardest part is behaviour management. Also, I look very serious a lot of the time, so kids dont always find me approachable but I do love kids. Im off to work now.

Tearose, great to hear from you. your story in a nutshell sounds very much like mine.
I'm wondering how you deal with being an expat and functioning in a very different society. for me, it has helped a lot that my weirdness is often attributed to being a foreigner (most English teachers working in Thailand are not "normal" anyway, one way or another), and it also helps that I don't understand and get annoyed by everything going on around me - it's a nice isolated existence, easy to shelter from frustrating comments or input from strangers. I also find that the people around here respect teachers a lot more than Europeans do and if you do your job properly and don't break some simple basic rules about dress code, working hours, etc, you will never get stabbed in the back or ostracised for being different or weird. strangely, easier to get by in a foreign environment and culture than in my own. - does your experience in Japan sound similar?

studying to become a secondary school maths teacher

Im pretty aware of my shortcomings, how I handle them will be a matter of debate when I start my classroom practicals

I also teach English overseas. I'm in my sixth year (not consecutive) of teaching English in South Korea. I also taught a Grade 4/5 split back home in Canada. I would have stayed, but my wife's Korean and she got homesick. Now it's my turn to be homesick. Anyway, I also find classroom control to be one of the hardest parts of my job, especially since I'm in a middle school. I'd love to move home, but there are no openings for teachers back home and I don't seem to be able to get through the interviews (One of many things that first made me suspect I had AS). Plus I'm the breadwinner and it's virtually impossible to get a FT teaching position without paying your dues as a supply / on-call teacher for three years. I've decided I'll need to make a career change if I ever want to see Canada again. I've been trying to learn Java programming online, but there are so many gaps in the lessons that it's going in fits and starts. To sum it up, I'm not sure if teaching is right for someone with AS because no two of us are alike, but it's not right for me.

I WAS going to be a special education teacher, but the college staff kicked me out of student teaching NOT because I had any problems with the kids, but because I had to open my big mouth and call out a teacher's aide who helped her son cheat on a test. The adults made me mad for a good reason, but I still wasn't allowed to finish the program.

Even though it happened in February, I'm still sore about it. After all, I had wanted to teach since I was eight years old.