http://disqus.com/by/kathykerstetter/enThu, 03 Sep 2009 21:02:58 -0000http://andyzweibel.com/2009/08/30/getting-old/#comment-15947789<p>Wait until you find yourself creating those assignments that you used to complain about. Or when you find out that your students were born after you graduated from High School. Or when a parent calls you 'sir'. Or you make a reference to a movie in one of you classes that you are *sure* everyone in the entire world has seen and get blank stares! (I will refrain from making a "Bueller" comment here).</p><p>Remember, growing old is mandatory - growing up is optional. Teachers are the youngest old people you will ever have the pleasure to meet and work with.</p><p>I'm old and proud of it... ;D</p>kathykerstetterThu, 03 Sep 2009 21:02:58 -0000http://musicedmajor.net/2009/07/14/grad-school/#comment-13450478<p>What a wonderful site and wonderful article. As director of a graduate program, I encourage my potential students to teach first. You will be quite a different person your third year of teaching than your first. I have also had many friends who have decided to change professions entirely within the first few years of teaching. These were wonderfully talented musicians and teachers who felt their calling somewhere else at the end of the day - and that's ok. It is much more important to have a competent music teacher who wants to be there, than to have one who feels they must be there because they have spent too much time and money on their educator training.</p><p></p>kathykerstetterTue, 28 Jul 2009 12:07:34 -0000