KATHLEEN Heilman:  

I graduated from Ohio State with a B.S. in English and Spanish education. I then taught 7th and 8th grade English at Loudonville-Perrysville Middle School for 2 years. I can't say I really enjoyed teaching at that time or at that level. Some of the kids didn't seem to like me much either; one morning I arrived to my classroom to find many of the windows had been broken out with frozen tomatoes thrown from the parking lot!! There were other uncomfortable incidents as well. Although there were many good experiences, I really didn't think teaching was for me, so I was happy to quit when I had children. After having 2 sons and a teaching break, my family found itself in need of more income. My husband told me about a "tutoring job" he had heard about that ended up being a teaching job at NCTC. I ended up teaching there part time and, through contacts at the Mansfield campus, I also found teaching positions at Ashland University a...Expand for more