Hi everyone, my name is Ninatello Anahid Eskandari (yeah! try to spell that when your in the 5th grade, so everyone just calls me Nina, except my mom when she gets mad) and like all of you in class this is my last semester here at CSUN, and can’t wait for graduation. As far as any plans after that, well the credential or the masters program comes to mind, but I haven’t decided, yet; may be I should, since it’s only months away. To why I chose English as a major, I have few reasons: I’ve always wanted to teach and English has been my most favorite subject. I love reading anything from Jane Austen’s Emma to the Twilight books ( yes, I actually read all four of them). Seeing that I was never a science or a math person, being a bio/math teacher was out of the question. Besides I have had my fair share of bad teachers in high school; so I figure if I’m a good teacher, there hopefully will be one less of a terrible teacher that students have to deal with. I love the idea of being in a class full of students and having the opportunity of teaching them and helping them with the problems. I also think that it might be just a little easier to be a young teacher; honestly, I think students can relate more to a teacher who knows about myspace, rather than someone who doesn’t even know how to use a computer. When I was in high school, my teacher weren’t a big fan of technology and emailing the students; but I can clearly see that this has changed. I’m a volunteer T.A. for one of my old high school English teachers, and now she does everything online. Students get their homework online and they turn in papers they same way. Personally, I’m not comfortable with doing everything online; but, I see the change, and I better get used to it soon.
Then there is the other side; honestly I’m horrified of that first day on the job when a student, who is probably smarter than anyone I know, asks me a question that I don’t know the answer to. (what now? Do I tell them to go and google it for extra credit?) Surly I’m not the only one who is concerned with this, I’ll take any suggestions that you can think of.
