Teacher Tunnel Podcast

On today's episode, we have Ruth Arseneault. Ruth is in her eighteenth year as a full-time teacher, although she has been teaching for thirty years - five years of that was as a substitute teacher which is kind of amazing. Ruth graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education from St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. She earned a Master of Arts in Literature from Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario. She has been teaching English 11 and 12 for the past ten years at Riverview High School in New Brunswick, Canada. Before that, she taught Theatre Arts and has produced and directed numerous plays.  -Ruth’s journey in becoming a teacher -Amateur acting -Theater Arts Teacher -Thoughts on the introversion  -Stress at work and talking with a psychologist. -Hand Work & Creative Outlets -Getting students (especially boys)  life-long readers -The effect of a father reading -What successful looks like to Ruth   “There is no perfect administrator because people are human…” -Scariest thing