I love working with kids, and I miss teaching a lot. When I had lived my ten years in Philly, I had taught three different subjects (aquatic sciences, local history, and courtroom stenography), and then I'd moved and gotten married. However, when I did teach, I was grandfathered in, as I do NOT have any teaching certification or directly-related degrees.

My desire to go back to teaching stems from a great deal, not the least of which is the enviornment and culture. I looking to 1) investigate where to go locally (York County, PA) for a Master's degree in Primary Education (kids were most fun to teach); 2) find out what is required to actually do the teaching (certifications and whatnot); and 3) sort out what certifications there are. I'm having a massively difficult time figuring out what to do and how to do it. There seems to be an abundance of information out there, but I can't sort it out to focus on what I need to do. [insert "arrgh"].

Does anyone have any recommendations? advice for a beginner? a kick in the pants in the right direction to get started? The sooner I get myself underway, the sooner I can work towards improving myself and--by extension--my family and our situation.