Chapter 1

As a future educator, I really look forward to having summers off for the rest of my life. On that note, I had never thought of the possibility of teaching at a year round school. it actually seems really appealing because teachers get a total of about 4 months off, but that time is spaced out rather than all bunched up during the summer. Also, I have really never pictured myself teaching at any type of school other than the ones I attended: elementary school (K-5th), middle school (6th-8th), and high school (9th-12th). Reading the chapter better prepared me for the different types of grade level breakups that different schools have. Being a middle school math teacher, it is important that I am prepared to work at middle schools, junior high schools, intermediate schools, primary schools, etc. To be honest, the rest of the chapter gave semi-useless advice, seeing as it seemed like common sense to me. I already recognized that familiarizing myself with the school, staff, resources, hours, etc is important, before I read it in the text.