Terrence Foushee - On his first year of teaching (clip)

Kathryn Wall (KW): Do you remember your first day in the classroom as a teacher?

Terrence Foushee (TF): I don’t even know! So I remember my room. I remember that my first year, that I had to share my room with another teacher but it was a blur. I know that I was sweating profusely and that it was a day that as soon as I got home, I slept for like 3 or 4 hours. That first year my sleep patterns were terrible because [I was] adjusting to what the teaching day is like, and especially being someone who was doing a lot of talking in the first, just not realizing how draining it is, and you know, being alone. I would come home at like, and I was staying, I would get to work at around 7, school started at 8, I would leave at like 5, and I was teaching at Northwood High School in Pittsboro, so it was a 25-minute drive, so I am getting home at like 5:30, and now I'm tired, and now I’m sleeping and taking a 3 hour nap, so now it's 8:30, I haven't eaten, and now I’m wired, and I’m nervous about the next day because one of the issues about first year teaching is being ahead of [your] class, right! And some days, literally, I'm minutes ahead of the class I am teaching, so that's what I remember about the first year. I don't necessarily remember the first day.

KW: How long did you teach at Northwood?