Aspies For Freedom

I wasn't too sure which forum to put this in as it's education with a difference.

I haven't posted for a while because I've been really busy on a teacher training course.  I have virtually no free time during term time but as it's the holidays thought I'd better try and increase my post count.

I was offered, and I accepted, my first teaching post a couple of weeks ago.  So from September I will be a teacher of mathematics at a comprehensive school in Chippenham, Wiltshire.  I will be teaching 11 to 18 year olds.  The interview went really well.  I had to teach a lesson (Pythagoras Theorem to 12/13 year olds), have an informal chat with two members of staff and a formal interview with 3 members of staff (headteacher, deputy head and head of maths).  I was pleasantly suprised about how it all went as usually I just go into 'overdrive mode' for interviews.

When they told me they'd like to offer me the post I must have stopped breathing for a few seconds.  Absolutely shocked I was, especially since the teachers who taught me said that I would never get a job standing up in front of people.

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One question that I'd like to know the answer to is:

Are there any other aspie teachers out there in cyberspace?

Natalia, but she's not active at this forum. Think she's on WP though.

http://www.aspiesforfreedom.com/showthre...6#pid58696

She's banned from here now though. Don't ask me why, I've no idea, but I think has something to do with a "droopy-attack" - don't ask.

I'm only 18, but I do intend to become a teacher.

Donna Williams trained as a teacher (see Somebody Somewhere). I suppose that's what she'd be doing now if it hadn't been for someone finding her manuscript discarded in a tea-chest.

Vernon Smith's some kind of teacher, isn't he?

I've speculated that one of my previous math teachers is aspie.

She had a very systematic way of going through the topics which always went really well.

There ofcourse more reasons why I think she could be on the spectrum.

Good luck to you.

I'm only 22 and I find that the pupils enjoy having a teacher who isn't a "crusty old fool" (quote taken from a BBC program).



Thanks to everyone who has replied.  Keep it up...

Economics professor, not a schooteacher.

Me too. Gifted teacher.

He has never this - to my knowledge. Where does he make this statement.

anyway - even if he has - I love a bit of eccentricity. We are allowed our quircks.

How do you see it as being demeaning? I can sought of guess - I guess. But it doesn't have to be that way.

Wow EZ - five posts on the trot!

I worked as a volunteer in a classroom of children with English as a second language,  aged between six and nine.

I loved the experience and was upset when I had to give it up (I cannot commute 1200km each way...)

I think that Aspies can make very good teachers!

Christschool has a video about him, if it is available at this point that is.