How many Educators on the forum?

I am currently in my 48th Year as a band director.  I now do middle school band but was high school concert band most of my life.  Still enjoy the kids and the extra income for buying trains.

I was an adjunct at a community college for a few years. Taught computer-related subjects. It was fun and financed the train slush fund.

Taught biology, oceanography, zoology, chemistry, and algebra. Retired after 31 years. Coached baseball, fastpitch softball, football, and wrestling. Baseball team was the 1998-1999 National Champions. I am now an Ohio Certified Volunteer Naturalist and teach at several state parks and for a local program called No Child Left Indoors.

Emeritus Professor of Biology at a California University.  Retired after 29 years there.

Prior to that, I spent 7 years at Rutgers University in N.J., and 5 years at the University of Arizona.

Been retired for a little over 10 years.  Really liked my university years, but now enjoy retirement.

George

5 of my years with IBM were spent instructing field techs on networking, software and hardware integration.  Had a lot of fun doing it and had made Atlanta my second home doing it.

Thirty seven years teaching social studies including twenty eight years teaching AP economics high school and college. Did lots of coaching, too. Football, baseball, women's softball, student activities, you name it. I spent two years as an assistant physical Ed teacher at the Collegiate School in Manhattan and had JFK Jr. As a 6 year old. 

One day he pulled me by the finger out of the classroom door to meet someone.

It was his mother. I was 18 and speechless.

Scrappy

30 years, Art/Photography 7-12 grades.

coaching: Basketball, Football, Baseball,

Volleyball, Soccer, Swimming.

I've been teaching interns, residents and med students since 1979. I started out as junior faculty at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore. Then, there was a briefer stint as Junior faculty at Temple University School of Medicine in Philly. Since 1985 I have been volunteer faculty for the Medial College of Virginia community-based Family Medicine program in Richmond.

Peter

I taught CNC Programming I & II at Westchester Community College in Valhalla NY. At that time, GM was shutting down their plant in Tarrytown so I was asked to re-educate the Tool & Die workers who were being laid off at that time.  What a great experience it was.

Cesar

Retired PA public schools...35 years!

I am the band director for our K-6 grade public elementary school. 19 years and still going!  (almost like a postwar 681) I teach concert band, beginning band and a rock band.  All my kids know about my obsession with Lionel!

Professor of Law at a public law school for the last 10 years, teaching patent law, intellectual property, and contract law.

Thanks to all the teachers that never gave up on me.

Brent

26 years (2 famous institutions) teaching residents, fellows, med students, PhD candidates, etc. Now Professor for past 4 yrs.

I am where I am because of my parents, teachers and my lovely wife

Bruce

Although it's not my fulltime job, I have been a part-time teacher at College of San Mateo (a community college) for the past 16 years.  Matt

I am in my 24th year of teaching high school mathematics - and I have loved just about all 24 years. Most days I come home thankful that I am in a profession that I enjoy. I teach a variety of students at all levels in a small rural district - about 400 in the high school. Most of them are good kids that just need adults to care about them and show an interest in them. I couldn't imagine doing anything else! 

Taught economics for 37 years at a big ten university. Developed and directed a masters program in policy economics for administrators in foreign governments, business, and universities. Had graduates from 74 different countries around the world.  Been retired for 17 years

I am a retired math and science teacher. I taught for 34 years prior to retirement.

Everyone is a role model, wittingly or unwittingly, for better or worse.

What, me worry? 

I taught for 37 years, all at the high school level.  Started out teaching in the automotive area and ended up teaching U.S. History and Government.  Also coached, most of it in baseball.  Been retired for 2 years.

I'm not a teacher as a profession, however since the 90's I've worked at:

Harvard University Information Systems (Sr UNIX Admin) and taught some UNIX shell scripting, Sendmail, DNS

Harvard Center for Astro Physics (Sr. UNIX Admin) and taught some more UNIX shell scripting and telescope making.

Harvard Management Company (Sr. UNIX Admin) and presently just overly busy having fun :-)

Just retired after 39 years as a middle school teacher. Tried to get my trains in every Christmas. Also brought in my live steam engine when we studied energy and my magnetic crane when we studied electromagnetism.

The recently begun school year is my 21st teaching music in PA public schools. I presently teach 185 orchestra students in grades 4-12. To keep this train related, I'm happy to report that the High School Orchestra will play a medley from the Polar Express soundtrack in December concerts. 

A crane for electromagnetism, brilliant!

I know when I was demonstrating shorts (teaching electricity), I used an LW transformer, both to heat up steel wool, and to blow a glass fuse. Unfortunately, my student teaching placement ended before I got to electromagnetism. I know sometime this year, I will be teaching it again, and I think I just got an excuse to buy a crane

I'm a professor of anthropology at Brandeis University in Waltham,

MA.

RParmentier

While I'm not a teacher, my daughter teaches kindergarten and is in her 6th year of teaching. She loves teaching the younger kids.

I started as a classroom teacher teaching social studies in middle and high school, later became a school counselor and psychometrist. Wife was a business teacher, later served as a high school counselor. We worked for 35 interesting years; the retirement pension is a very nice thing to have these days. 

Now retired for a couple of years, I spent 38 years as a teacher, assistant superintendent and high-school principal.  Early along the way, I picked up a Ph.D. (there is something to that "higher and deeper" saying...LOL!) from a noted Western university ("Fear the Tree") and taught many college classes as an adjunct.

My two best years: early in my career I taught 7th and 8th graders history.  Fantastic.

Teaching well may be the noblest profession...and it certainly is a valuable contribution to the progress of humanity.

Retired in 2003 after 35 years in the field of Special Education.  First 16 years in Cincinnati as a teacher/occupational coordinator.   Then 19 years in PA as an administrator/consultant with the Pennsylvania Training and Technical Assistance Network.  Also involved in Driver education and motorcycle education for even more fun! I still bump into some of my "kids" when I visit in Cincinnati and they still have the same job I placed them in 30+ years ago!  

"Not very often do we get the OPPORTUNITY to THANK our Educators, both Public and Private institutions. So a BIG THANK YOU TO ALL WHO HAVE SERVED IN SOME CAPACITY of helping us and our families to grow in knowledge."

I must second this remark by Pops. Both my daughter in laws are teachers.  You are all to be commended in your service to education. Thank you.

Larry

Ah, Stanford University.  Not only one of the most prestigious universities out there, also founded by Leland Stanford, governor of CA, and one of the noted "Big Four" (former President of the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific).

Yes, John.  LOL!!!

I teach accounting at an Ohio university.

Anyone else??  Any updates??  

I taught NYS Regents Biology, genetics, biotechnology, anatomy and physiology, marine biology, oceanography and ecology in my 33 years as a high school teacher.

I miss the "kids" (16-18 year olds) and looked forward to going to work every day. I don't miss the discipline and paperwork aspects of the job.

As a retiree, I volunteer at a free medical clinic and judge science fairs when I'm not playing with my trains or reading the forum.