Hayasaki, Erika,
A Writer Turns to Teaching: Beginning a New Chapter in His Life. Erika Hayasaki. - Los Angeles Times, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 4, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: A Writer Turns to Teaching: Beginning a New Chapter in His Life, Dec. 19, 2004; pp. A1+.
"Ricardo Lira Acuna, 34, had counted on teaching to be satisfying, even inspiring. He was one of more than 200 interns hired each year by the Los Angeles Unified School District through a special program for mid-career professionals and college graduates without education credentials. His wife, a teacher, had inspired him to set aside his desire to write full time so he could teach instead. He took six weeks of intensive training. Then, in August 2003, he went directly into a classroom at John Marshall High School in Los Feliz. Though he faced three more years of training classes at night and on weekends, he was now teaching English to kids he wanted to help. He particularly had in mind kids who were like he had been: poor kids, struggling kids, kids on the margins. But he found problems he had never imagined." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author relates the struggles Acuna faced as he began his teaching career in this first article of a three-part series.
1522-3256;
Authors as teachers
Career changes
First year teachers
Hispanic American authors
Hispanic American students
Hispanic Americans--Attitudes
Students--Attitudes
Teacher-student relationships
Teachers--Attitudes
AC1.S5
050
A Writer Turns to Teaching: Beginning a New Chapter in His Life. Erika Hayasaki. - Los Angeles Times, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 4, Institutions, 1522-3256; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: A Writer Turns to Teaching: Beginning a New Chapter in His Life, Dec. 19, 2004; pp. A1+.
"Ricardo Lira Acuna, 34, had counted on teaching to be satisfying, even inspiring. He was one of more than 200 interns hired each year by the Los Angeles Unified School District through a special program for mid-career professionals and college graduates without education credentials. His wife, a teacher, had inspired him to set aside his desire to write full time so he could teach instead. He took six weeks of intensive training. Then, in August 2003, he went directly into a classroom at John Marshall High School in Los Feliz. Though he faced three more years of training classes at night and on weekends, he was now teaching English to kids he wanted to help. He particularly had in mind kids who were like he had been: poor kids, struggling kids, kids on the margins. But he found problems he had never imagined." (LOS ANGELES TIMES) The author relates the struggles Acuna faced as he began his teaching career in this first article of a three-part series.
1522-3256;
Authors as teachers
Career changes
First year teachers
Hispanic American authors
Hispanic American students
Hispanic Americans--Attitudes
Students--Attitudes
Teacher-student relationships
Teachers--Attitudes
AC1.S5
050