"Mentors give new teachers a real education"

Jessica Blanchard:

Scott Anstett thought his college classes and student teaching had prepared him for his first substitute-teaching job at Denny Middle School in West Seattle.

Then, on his first day of school, a couple of his rowdier students jumped out the windows of his portable classroom.

"They were going a bit nuts," he said recently. "They knew I was a sub, so they put me to the test. ... It was a culture shock."

Anstett stuck with it, and spent four years in a string of substitute jobs in Seattle Public Schools. But he might have given up on the profession if he hadn't landed a permanent job last fall, teaching art at Aki Kurose Middle School, and if he hadn't met Don "Mac" MacInnes.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at July 7, 2006 6:27 AM
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