Thinking about teaching

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This last week I've been thinking what I want to do with my life and I really want to teach in schools I want to also specialise in teaching people with Autism/AS I feel because I was in a unit that I feel didn't really know that much about AS people and about the 'disorder' as they called it and I feel I want to help people with it.

Thought I'd let people know I am going to look into it and see how I can start a career.

I wish you good luck and that you find it rewarding, it sounds like a worthy direction to go.

Do look into it! And I wish you well! Although you need to have the skills to teach, if you can graduate from a teaching course such as B.Ed, or post graduate teachers course after having passed a first degree.

Though in mind, AS is regarded as a special need, and more qualifications may be required to be a fully fledged Special Needs Teacher.

The other thing is to be assertive enough to keep a class of children under control.

If the college or university knows you have AS you may be scruitinized more to see if can keep the teacher training course as an Aspie.

When I was school, with hindsight there were one or two teacher who showed traits of AS, they were very clever but were employed informally without having formal teaching qualification, and so did not teach very well, and they had to leave after a few months.