
Katie Parmer
High School Teacher
“Be willing to take chances.”
“Be willing to take chances.”
High School Teacher
I teach AP English and American Literature at Rancho Verde High School.
On a typical day, I wake up around 5 AM and get some coffee. There is a coffee machine in my classroom, so there is always a flow of coffee throughout the day. I teach five out of six classes. One of them being my prep period, which this year is second period. I usually get ready for most of my classes during that time, as well as grade (sometimes procrastinate, because teachers do that too). I do club advising during school; we have a built in flex schedule. Then I'm usually off by 4:30.
Here's the first step for everyone
Apply to places that interest you and that match your vibe, but be willing to take chances. Definitely do your research so you walk into an interview confident and prepared.
"The noise I hear the most is when people claim we don't teach "life skills" and that schools should be teaching things that will help you in life, like taxes, and budgeting, and auto shop or home etc."
Surprisingly, they didn't effect my choices on my career. Even though they are both teachers, I initially wanted to do something with marine biology. One day in high school I woke up and just knew I wanted to teach English.
Yes, I did actually. I did the semester abroad program through CSUF and was able to study literature at the University of London. It was such an amazing experience.
So I always loved the literature I was reading when I was in high school, so when I decided to start teaching I went with high school. This is because the literature that I loved to read was more mature and I feel I liked having mature discussions.
I wouldn't say there are any bad things about my job, but something that I dread doing is grading. It is very time consuming, especially if i have to read almost a 100 essays.
Well both of my parents were teachers, so I got lucky that I didn't really have to figure out the college stuff by myself. However my parents were very supportive in whatever I chose to do and never forced me to do anything I didn't want to do.
at CSUF