Becoming a teacher?!!?
Why go through all the schooling to be a secondary teacher trained in teaching physical education when after 3 or 4 years you plan to open a day care center and later continue working with young, elementary level students? Become an elementary teacher in the subject area you find most interesting and enjoyable, and then you will already have the skills for your day care plans. And of course, the education and experiences from clinicals, student teaching, and professional teaching. Elementary and secondary and completely different. Being a secondary education English teacher with a mom who is an elementary teacher, I know how different schooling and training is between the two fields. You need to know those children's every step of development and support their social, personal, emotional, and intellectual growth, and that not only varies from grade to grade but from student to student -- let alone when you jump in to a day care from a high school with a high school degree and experience. Go elementary or early childhood education and major in your subject of interest, and teach in an elementary school. Either you teach elementary/eary childhood and then move on to day care...or you teach high school and don't do the day care. It's what you want the most.
Should I become a teacher?
I want to become a teacher as I would like to share my love of learning with others and be able to educate people and have a continually engaging and interesting career. The only problem is I am not very extroverted and apparently I'm too quiet though I don't notice it till people point it out. My parents are fairly quiet people and I'm afraid this has rubbed off on me unfortunately. I also have had very little experience with kids. When I went for work experience at a primary (elementary) school last year my supervising teacher criticized me on all these things, saying that I am not firm enough with the kids, that I was way too quiet to be a teacher, that I should not consider this path and basically told me I couldn't be a teacher and it really hurt my self confidence. Do you think I could still be a teacher? I really would like to be an engaging, outgoing teacher, one that really motivates the students to learn, but the teacher last year led me to believe I could never be that. I'm 17, have good academic results and was hoping to go to university next year to study teaching, but I'm not so sure I could succeed because my personality isn't good enough.
I am thinking about becoming an ESL teacher?
I have been an ESL teacher at an adult school in California for 13 years, and I absolutely love love love it! I used to be a lawyer and practiced law for 10 years when I decided, for a variety of reasons, to become an ESL teacher. The pay is not what it was as a lawyer (lol) but if you love your job and are a born teacher, it becomes something that doesn't matter as much as you think. I make about $40 an hour, working 20 hours a week, because school districts don't like hiring adult school teachers full time, so they don't have to pay benefits. If you want to teach ESL at a community college level, you can make somewhat more money at it, although it is my experience that most ESL students go to adult schools first, because they are free. I totally made the right decision becoming an ESL teacher. I love the English language, particularly grammar, which is good because students mostly have trouble with it. The English language is hard to learn because it is very irregular in spelling, grammar rules, pronunciation, and you really need to know the rules well in order to teach the language. But the students will adore you. I teach students from all over the world, and I get to hear about their lives, their hopes, their fears, and together we bond like a family. It is an amazing and wonderful thing that happens in an ESL classroom, like no other experience I have ever had. I feel I am a born teacher. If you feel this calling in your heart, go for it! There are students out there who are afraid of Americans, who are afraid that they can't learn, who get picked on for their accents and imperfect use of the language, and it is up to you to be their biggest advocate, to be on their side and to help them learn what may seem obvious to you, but which is very confusing to them: the English language. I wish you the very very best of luck!!!!! Lady Morgana ESL teacher for 13 years and loving it!
How do you know becoming a teacher is for you ?
Wait! You are the just the kind of teacher kids desperately need. I'm a slow learner. I know how hard it is to learn. So do you. So you will be able to help them better than anyone because you know what can go wrong. The only thing you still have to learn (what every teacher needs to know) is that it is ok NOT to know all the answers. The perfect response is honesty. When you don't know the answer, just say so. NObody knows EVERYthing. You can say, Wow! That's a great question! Let's find the answer together! You said you want to teach. Don't talk yourself out of it. Have a backup plan in case it doesn't work out (anybody should do that) but please give it a try. It's the hardest work you will ever do. The system is crazy. The lack of discipline is unbelieveable. But the rewards are indescribable. If you want to teach, don't cheat yourself. How did I know I should teach? I didn't. Not until I went to college and watched one of my teachers. I never realized how inspired I was to teach, yet all along, I had been doing just that. When I first went to school I was 6. I came home after the very first day, invited the little girls who lived next door to come over, and I taught them everything I learned in school that day. You know you're supposed to be a teacher when: -every time you learn anything, you feel compelled to pass the knowlege on to someone else. -it is important to you that your students are ready for the world when they leave your class. -when you make things better, more interesting, more fun, more filled with information each time you teach the chapter over the next year. You won't truly know how you feel about teaching until you are on your own with 30 kids for a year. The first year you teach will be the hardest, most wonderful year of your life. The kids will teach you. The second year you will be able to build on what you know. By the third year, you will have your classroom running like an orchestra playing beautiful music. Go be a teacher. The kids need you.
Why do YOU think men want to become teachers?
I'm in the process of becoming a teacher. I am male and I my reasoning is somewhat simple. I LOVE to teach. I love everything about it. The best is when you finally see a student "get it". After three careers in the past I have found teaching and I don't want to do anything other than this. Your question is sort of insulting to me, but I understand why you are asking it. I could ask the same about a few female teacher who were in the news just in the past couple of years for similar offenses. I don't think the gender of the teacher matters, it's the quality of person. As for background checks, there are plenty of them. I have three different checks and one has a finger print record. They help, but they can't say what a person has the potential to do, only what they have done in the past. As for the dirt bags out there who prey on kids, I don't have a lot of answers on how to fix that problem. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but just because someone is a particular gender doesn't mean we can assume that they are a possible child predator.
I am in my second year of teaching (right out of college). I make around $36,000 with full benefits. The pay is fine for now, but I am concerned what my financial situation will look like once I am married and have children.But I did not become a teacher for the pay. Chasing money and riches for your entire life just seems fruitless to me. I became a teacher because I love the age group I teach (8th grade), and I want to have a purposeful life. Just in two years, I’ve taught over 300 students who will always remember their 8th grade US History teacher. If I was in my second year at an office building, I would have impacted… uhh.. 15 people’s lives?Life is short. I chose to spend it making a little money helping students and providing a safe, positive environment for America’s adolescents.Oh, and I get summers off too :)
The best and only person to answer that question is you. Seeing that you asked the question here, I can only assume you want expert advice about how to arrive at the best answer.Here are some ideas:Make a pros and cons list for both jobs. Compare.Call or talk in person with people in the area where you hope to obtain one of those jobs, who currently work in those professions. Ask them a nearly identical list of questions and write down the answers. Compare.Ask yourself what you need and want in terms of pay, benefits, and retirement planning. Which career will get you there best? Different schools and libraries pay and compensate differently.Look into what schooling and experience/certification is required in order to be employed in those professions in your area. Narrow down what you want to do as much as possible. There are many types of teachers (high school, preschool, special ed, etc.) and many types of librarians (public, school, research, academic, etc.). Some of the schooling for both careers is interchangeable, so there is a possibility you might choose one, begin to take classes for it, and decide to go in the other direction using the credits you’ve already earned. Be open to that possibility.After you have the above information, ask yourself what one you are leaning toward the most. Your heart will most likely tug you in a definite direction. See if the tug matches what your mind and logic say.Congratulate yourself on choosing a meaningful, rewarding, and interesting career, because whether you choose teacher or librarian, you will be doing something worthwhile for the world around you!Best of luck in all of your endeavors!
Yes, Wholeheartedly !How much we teachers love our students?Parents deal college and universities once in a semester or only on teacher-parent meetings or even not at all. We deal with all the ups and downs to make sure our students get what they deserves.Parents expend part of their life earning to child, we teachers expend our time and effort i.e. Life indirectly for betterment of our students.Teachers are the one to track progress, make personal connection so that they can give advices and help students to be better person everyday.At the end of the semester teachers are the one to keep eye on result and mark sheets rather than parents. Teachers are one to visit university websites first to get their students' result.We become happy on students achievements and sad on not meeting expectations. Inspiring and filling up failed student with “I Can” attitude is not a joke. Even parents nowadays don't care these stuffs.People nowadays see teachers as paid slaves who exchange their time for money. But you'll realize what it needed to be a responsible teacher only by being one. You need courage, discipline, hard-work, fresh contents, knowledge transfer and communication skills along with constant energy level throughout the day.Without loving your students, it's not possible to be a good teacher.Thank you.Image: BusyTeacher
How do you become an Elementary teacher?
I was working as a counselor when I became so disheartened that I quit. While I was trying to get back on my feet and figure out what I wanted to do with my life, I decided to substitute teach. I feel in love with it. I went back to school and got my teaching degree and made it through my student teaching. The first few years were difficult. Some things you just have to learned through experience. I suggest you try substitute teaching. It is not ideal, but it does give you a taste of what it is like. You can also volunteer at schools or ask to do some observations. Watching good teachers teach is amazingly helpful. I hope you do find you like it. We need good teachers who want to teach. I love it, been doing it for the past 15 years.Good Luck!
I have written about this numerous times before. A good friend of mine who I went to university with and taught overseas with is having to go to trial after being accused by two girls of molesting them years ago.The police didn't do any investigating at all, arrested him at school and his name was all over the papers.The case immediately fell apart. Instead of an apology, the police got the girls into change their story again and again. 7 statements in 3 months.The vast majority of charges are for when he wasn't even teaching, and some of them for when we were overseas together. I could go on.I could go on, but at the end of the day, the hysteria behind child protection is a massive issue.People wonder why you can't get male teachers.EDITMy good friend has just told me the prosecution have just realised that he was overseas at the time. Apparently police can't read passports.So what the prosecution have done is gotten one of the ‘victims’ in to change their story AGAIN. A whole bunch of charges have now been moved by a time period of years. He tells me this is apparently completely legal.Edit 2I have just been told that one of the ‘victims’, who has a history of accusing teachers, can't be examined on her accusing other teachers as this falls under the category of ‘previous sexual history’. He has a catalogue of information from the department of education about her and inch thick. But can't use it.We have also found out the principal and numerous staff knew, and interviewed these two girls that were running around telling everyone that he was their boyfriend. The worse issue is that these girls were constantly put under his supervision.