Any teachers?

Sam, I'm going to port your thread over to Roundtable. I think you're more likely to stumble across a teacher or two there.

I taught a writing class at a college one year, but that was it. My girlfriend is finishing up her MAT for English 6-12; hearing her describe what she has to put up with during school has made it clear to me that I could never be a high school teacher.

I've taught technical writing, business writing, and various sorts of compositions/writing about literature classes at colleges and universities.

I started teaching as a graduate student. If you're thinking of teaching fictive/poetry writing, publishing credits--really really good ones--are more important than an MFA.

There are tenure-track jobs in composition-rhetoric, but it's one of the most difficult sorts of teaching, without a lot of reward from the profession in terms of advancement and tenure.