And The Career Kicks Off

Hello everyone! Heres an update on what's going on with my career. I recently put in my two-week notice at the daycare I have been working at for almost 5 years. It's so hard to say good-bye to what has pretty much been a family to me, but hard times and changes in my life now require a little more than my part-time minimum wage paycheck and to something more in my field, what I really want to do: TEACH! I love my children dearly and have watched them grow up from learning how to sit up, crawl, and walk to climbing monkey bars and singing the abc's and months of the year. I will come back to visit them though, but it is time to move on.
I am currently on call for substituting and will begin another position as a GED instructor/tutor working with students in grades 6th-11th. I'm so excited! I will be getting great experience in the classrooms while subbing a few days out of the week and tutoring the rest of the week. I'm getting all of my resources together and continuing to do research and find anything that may benefit me and my students (I love to read). I'm also looking foward to getting a position as a long-term sub at a charter school teaching middle school history. All of these things going on has been an eye-opener for me. I realize that there is so much I can do and expand my skills to so many areas to the point that my dreams have been re-arranged to endless possibilities. I have no idea exactly what I want to do! LOL I'm not sure if I want to go into Special Education, Psychology, or Secondary Science (preferably Chemistry) or do it ALL!!! I know I eventually want to go back to school and get my Masters and Doctors and I also want to go into administration in my later years but there's no telling what eye-openers I will have by then!! Right now I would like to be nationally certified but not sure as to how to go about doing so and preparing. If anyone knows, PLEASE LET ME KNOW!!! But I'm just at a point where I'm just excited and ready to get to work and help improve some wonderful lives in the community. Hopefully I will land a contract position for the 2009-2010 school year. I may have to look out of town and commute until I save enough to move, with how things are here in Aiken.
So, that's what's going on with me. I'm searching for some good resources I can use for middle/high school math, science, and social studies; how to go about being natioanally certified; and finding an elementary position for the 2009-2010 school year in or around Aiken, SC (anywhere in SC, maybe even Georgia and North Carolina). Well, be back soon!