Does anyone here teach?

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I'm wondering whether there are any aspies out there who have succeeded in teaching, whether for college or high school, etc. I'd like to teach college history someday, but I'm unsure whether I will be able, so I was curious to hear other aspies' experiences in teaching. I've been working as a writing tutor this semester, and I've found that hard enough.

i've been a teacher, to an adult audiance. good experience. you can talk endlessly about your favorite subject, and automatically get respect from poeple....

I have a licensed early childhood teacher. I'm licensed from birth to 3rd grade. I have taught preschool for many years (Pre-K and 4's and 3's). I have taught English as a second language in Korea. I have done tons of substitute teaching. I have also spoken at many conferences on many subjects pertaining to different disabilities and disability rights.

The cool thing about teaching is that when teaching little kids you can act as silly as you want and no one cares. They act silly too. You can also hide your "inappropriate" obsession with toys, children's books, crafts, etc.

With older kids your obsessive interest in a specific subject can be hidden behind teaching the kids.

The hard thing is dealing with parents and administrators. It's also difficult to keep up on the paperwork if you aren't good with it. This is a weird climate to be a teacher in. The ways we were taught are dead and with the no child left behind, we aren't serving the kids, we are serving the interests of a bunch of idiotic people who aren't educators and who think they know how to run a classroom and exactly what can be accomplished in one.

Very strange. For some reason, they think that a teacher in a totally integrated classroom (meaning NT children and children on all disability levels are mixed in) with no provisions for servicing the special needs students and no means to discipline them can teach 35-40 children in a classroom with no help and expect them in some school districts to not only teach the core subjects but specials subjects such as art and music as well.

The problem with this is that teachers are expected to be subject specialists and to make sure that children are learning all sorts of ridiculous standards. This leaves little time for "fun" activities.

Woooo.......Sorry, I think I went off into TMI land.

I know many teachers that are possibly AS and I myself am a teacher with AS. However, I am also not currently working in a classroom full time. I still work with the schools and with special needs students, but not in a teaching capacity.

I taught English at the junior college level in 1994. I liked it, but I was not really temperamentally suited to be a teacher. I hated hearing the excuses students made about not having their homework done.

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It's how my first lesson with my students looked like I regret not calling the police then - their parents would have to pay me some damages. I'd rather be a prostitute than a teacher; it would give me some money and some pleasure in contrast to my "work" - it's only "work" not a work because we're not paid for this, it's only a teacher practice which is compulsory for all those students who are on the third year. Situation hasn't changed too much from that time, boys are noisy and those who really want to learn can't do it because their noisy friends disturb them. This class is full of school hooligans.

Hello there

I have been qualified to teach at Colleges for Further Education since 1995 but have not taught full-time. The culture at FE Colleges does not suit me (too pressured and outcome based) so I have only taken on Visiting Lecturer sessions. Took the skills and experience into the voluntary sector and now in the NHS.

Wrote and taught a full year course for a local College evening class teaching gay, lesbian and bi-sexual students advcacy skills and techniques. That was great.

I was actually put off "formal" teaching some years ago when I read a report on the Myers-Briggs scale applied to teachers in an American state (which seemed to apply pretty globally). It showed that there was a predominance of a certain type of character trait and that my characteristics would leave me isolated and misunderstood within the staff body. It may well be that my AS would have caused me issues anyway.

This was reinforced when I did work at a college and all the full-time staff spent their time fabricating student outcomes and completing funding applications.

On a positive note I love teaching! While I suffer incredible anxiety standing up in front of people my skills at preparation and somewhat left-field ways of looking at life seem to work...

Peace and good luck

Tog

It's been argued that Aspie teachers are not at a serious disadvantage compared to other teachers because they can teach students with Aspergers better than most other teachers could. So there should be no discrimination for becoming a teacher, regardless of whether or not you have Aspergers. I plan to teach math, and if at all possible, for students who do have Aspergers, although I suppose it's not nearly as difficult as teaching English to them.