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During the last semester of UTEP, every student is required to teach classes. Pierce taught 10th grade world history and 11th grade U.S. history at Excel High School in South Boston. He says the school never desegregated itself, and it has a lot of racial tension and �...
“From February 2 to May 14, I was Mr. Pierce,” he says, adding that effective teaching was an “amazingly difficult thing to learn.”
As for next year, Pierce will be teaching high school history at an international School in Hong Kong—a position he obtained with the help of the Office of Career Services.
“Maybe I’ll pick a big city in the Midwest or South and set up shop there and teach,” Pierce says. “I wanted to get out of the States while I still could, while I don’t...
When Pierce looks back on his almost four years in Cambridge, his friends are not the only ones who distinguished PMJ from his present status.