Re: [at-l] Hiking and Teaching

that was me, and i've been exploring those opportunities as well.  the thing
is, i really want to bring the trail experience into a public school
classroom.  there are so many lessons to be learned that public school
children don't have the opportunity to learn, that children who attend
outdoor summer camps and what-not do.  plus, i am also an english teacher,
and i miss reading books (and yes, i know i don't capitalize anything and
have dangling modifiers.  all the more reason to get back into teaching
english).

belcher

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>From: goinggoinggone@webtv.net
>To: at-l@backcountry.net
>Subject: [at-l] Hiking and Teaching
>Date: Sun, Dec 31, 2000, 9:25 AM
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> I have lost track amidst all the reading and
>  deleting of messages, but I remember that someone posted a thought
> pertaining to the dilema of wanting to take a teaching job, but that it
> would limit their hiking time to but a few months at a time; there are a
> couple of alternatives that spring to mind that combine both teaching
> and hiking, or at least teaching in areas whose geography has lots of
> hiking possibilities: there are quite a few "wilderness education"
> companies that employ folks with outdoor skills and interpersonal
> smarts...Outward Bound being the most well-known example. There are also
> teaching options that combine lots of hiking with educating "wayward"
> youth in a wilderness setting, and although specific names of companies
> involved in this industry escape me at the moment, most of the
> court-ordered hiking/intervention groups are based in the West. There
> are also the wonderfully beautiful spots that one could work close to by
> teaching on Native-American reservations. Or if a person were looking
> for a more culturally intensive and transient situation, there are the
> overseas English-teaching positions that pay quite a lot of tax-free
> dollars, but are understandably hard to hook up with due to all the
> competition....I know if I ever finish my degree I'm heading straight
> back to Alaska.
>
> Happy Sneaux Year,
> Alejandro
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