I would love to be a teacher but I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do
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I would love to be a teacher but I don’t know if it’s the right thing to do So I’m currently 17 and I’m thinking about what I want to do after school and one of the things I would love to do is teach, specifically Irish. I’m Irish myself and I love the language so much. It’s one of the things I’m most passionate about, but I find it so hard to speak the language. Not because I don’t know it, I can speak the language pretty well but I stutter so much while speaking Irish. In one the my last classes the teacher went around the class and got us all to read a phrase from a sheet of vocab for essays and all I had to say was “Ar dtús” and I couldn’t. It took me so long to just say the word “ar” (pronounced like air) I’m really nervous about committing my life to teaching the language when I find it so hard to say things in set language. I’m worried that if I get into it I’ll teach a class and I won’t be able to get as much done as I want to because of all the times I’ll stutter and block. I’m hoping to start college in September 2022 so I will have until then to decide but I really don’t know what to do. If there’s anyone here that works as a teacher with a moderate-severe stutter, let me know how that is. Míle buíochas a chairde