My Work Life

While in University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,  I spent a lot of time doing basic jobs just to pay the bills including; waiter, night clerk, bank teller, and shoe salesman. While these certainly helped to pay my bills they were not quite what I wanted as a career. For that I would need to build on my history degree so ....

After I graduated and took a year off,  I started the Masters program at University of Missouri at Columbia.  While there I entered into form of  indentured servitude that is more commonly known as being a teaching assistant. I finished up my Masters but found the actually teaching of students more interesting than the long books on topics such as the effect of colonialsim on the economic system of Great Britain from the years 1750-1800.

When I moved back to Chicago, I decided to enroll at the DePaul University to get my teaching certificate.  While continuing to work on restaurants and as a claims clerk at Sears Logistic Services I was able to finish off the requirements to get my certificate by student teaching at Von Steuben Metropolitan Academy in Chicago.  

After substituting for a while and working one year at Hyde Park Career Academy in Chicago,  I started a job in the education programs department at the Chicago Historical Society.  I enjoyed it but missed seeing the same students every day.

So when I found out that Roycemore School was looking for a history teacher I applied and was hired.  My main responsibilities were in history but I also taught a math to the seventh grade one class period and taught a class called organzational skills to the fifth and sixth graders once a week. This is my seventh year at Roycemore.  While I have always been fascinated by the different currents in history, I have become more interested in math over time. I am the co-sponsor of the math team and started an afterschool session once every two weeks called math lab that focuses on a different topic that runs through the middle school curriculum.