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>> OK, my name is Cindy Cason.

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And currently I own my own company.

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I have an educational consulting company.

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I'm an educator.

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My company works with public educators across
the country, work with teachers helping them

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with teaching strategies, working
with students to make them successful.

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It's a very difficult profession.

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It's a very rewarding profession,
but it's very difficult.

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But you do have to be very, very prepared.

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Teaching, if you like structure, is great,

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because it's very structured,
it's very scheduled.

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You're either having, you know that
class starts at 8:01 and ends at 8:46.

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But you also have to be very flexible, because
you may plan a lesson that you think will last

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for 30 minutes and it's actually
lasted 5 minutes.

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Or you think that you're hired to teach English
that day, and the kids walk in the door,

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and something happened that morning.

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Their parents had a fight, or their bother
hit them when they got out of the car,

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so you're teaching the whole child.

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You're teaching their whole family because
you have their parents to deal with,

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you have everything they
bring into the classroom.

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So you have to be prepared for everything.

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It's psychology, it's your subject matter.

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It's a very challenging job, but
it's a very rewarding job as well.