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Skriven 2011-12-17 22:44:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
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-=> Quoting Glen Jamieson to Jim Weller <=-

 JW> Yellowknife is fairly diverse

 GJ> So what sort of school does Roslind teach at?

She doesn't, not any more. Her career has progressed thusly:

She started off as a beautician (a combination of the hairdressing,
barbering, esthetics and massage trades) and owned a successful shop
with several employees.

Before I met her, she had obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree
but continued doing hair for a living as it paid better than being
an artist.

When I met her she was half way through her second degree, Education
this time. Upon graduation she was a substitute teacher teaching
from K-12 for one year as there were no full time permanent
positions available that year.

In subsequent years she decided she preferred adult education and
did stints at (1) the local community college, writing a curriculum,
designing a classroom studio for hairdressers so they could
learn locally and not have to go down to Edmonton for training. She
also supervised its construction. She taught there for the first
year, then turned it over to someone else. She was also paid by the
HR dept. to write the job description and the ad, interview the
applicants and select the successful candidate. (2) Project Change,
a GNWT funded initiative - doing basic upgrading for special needs
(learning disabilities) students in jail but eligible for day
passes, on parole or at a halfway house (3) NWT Native Women's
Association - Grade 12 equivalency for adults (4) Federal Status of
Women's Council, doing a traveling (to all the remote communities in
the NWT) workshop to raise awareness on non-traditional employment
opportunities, relevant courses to take and how to apply for student
aid.

She also sat on the trades standards committee representing the
NWT, Nunavut and the Yukon in Ottawa and helped develop the national
education and training standards (red seal program) and designed the
tests for hairdressers, barbers and estheticians. She gave herself
her red seal.

All the while she worked on her Masters of Education through
distance learning. After she obtained it she took a job at the
community college teaching pre-education to aspiring Education
students.

Then she started a certificate course in Counselling. As soon as
that was completed she quit teaching and set up a practise which
occupies her today. And she is working on a Master of Science degree
in clinic psychology (she is in the middle of the very last course)
which will make her a more qualified and more highly paid
counsellor. She stills does hair at home for old friends Saturdays
and still gives me massages when I need one. Art has taken a back
seat until she retires or at least stops studying.

She says her career is actually professional student.






Cheers

YK Jim


... Human history is a race between education & catastrophe.

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