I recently received my Master of Arts in Teaching degree from SUNY New Paltz, and am a newly certified English teacher. I decided to become an English teacher in 2012, a very long time after I graduated high school (so don?t be concerned if you?re not sure what you want to be just yet!), while I was in college taking a Young Adult Literature course. I spent the whole semester reading books whose main characters were about your age! I imagined how great it would be to teach literature through ...