Jul 29
By Rita DiCarne
The past few years have been tough on Catholic school teachers with the closing of schools and the reduction of teaching staff. Many of my non-teaching friends encouraged me to leave the profession and “recreate” myself like all the popular magazines suggest. One friend in particular asked me, “What else do you see yourself doing?” My response was silence. I just couldn’t come up with a single thing – not one.
You see, I teach for selfish reasons. Read more
By Diane Dougherty
I retired from teaching more than ten years ago. Yet, I still consider myself to be a teacher. During the final days of my teaching career I remember talking to a student about my future. “What will I be when I’m not a teacher anymore?” I wondered.
“Mrs. Dougherty,” he replied, “you will always be a teacher, because that’s what you are at heart.”
That student was about to become a high school graduate in just a few short days, but he knew an important truth: those who choose teaching as a career without reservation will always be teachers. We may have second lives as gardeners, painters, retail salespersons, or experimental biologists; however, we remain teachers “at heart.”
By Brian Kelley
Asked to write to the prompt, “Why I Teach” brings up memories of the faces of young men lighting up when they heard my step-father’s name. So much of that, of course, is attributed to who he is as a person in addition to who he is as an educator. He has talked so fondly about his students over the years. I’ll always remember family conversations held around the kitchen table and the great fondness in my step-father’s eyes when he talked about his students or players.
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