-: I'm a nontraditional, I was a nontraditional student.
I majored in journalism and public relations with a minor
in Spanish so I became fluent
by living in Spain my senior year.
I would highly recommend that a student become immersed
if they wanna be a Spanish student,
a Spanish teacher rather.
Or whatever language they wanna teach,
you need to be immersed so that it actually clicks
in your brain how to think in the other language
and to actually have those cultural experiences
that you can fall back on that you can share.
Being a teacher is like running a business.
You have to have a procedure for everything.
And you have to teach the procedure, you have to be willing
to teach the procedure, rehearse it, reinforce it
so that students know what the expectations are.
So the person needs to at least,
you really don't know until you hire someone
if they really, you know,
are a good classroom manager or not.
It's like running a store
and it's like running a business, really.
You have to be organized and if you don't, and you know,
working with young people and young minds
with developing humans it takes a lot of preparation,
it takes a lot of teaching just how to function, you know,
you're like the parent, you know,
away from home and so there's a lot of teaching
that goes into it,
a lot of explaining and a lot of building relationships.
And so you've got to be willing to connect with,
like I hate to say it, but your base and get their buy-in,
so it's really, really important that you can be firm
and that you can be consistent and yet fair.