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Careers / Secondary School Teachers, Except Special and Career/Technical Education |
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| There are 4657 users in this career group. They represent 38 different countries. You can see the list of users in this career group by clicking on one of the links below. You can also join this career group simply by selecting your current status and clicking "Add Me." |
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1827 users are currently in this career. |
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87 users are considering this career. |
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182 users left or retired from this career. |
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| Reviews |
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are 29 reviews of this career. The most recent 3 reviews are listed below. You can see more reviews by clicking on "Read all reviews..." at the bottom of this page. |
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AM in Nova (Ashburn, VA) |
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September 15, 2007 |
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Don't commit to any new degree program in education without first having had some experiences as a teaching assistant or a long-term substitute teacher. Concerning the pay: You may wonder why teachers whine about how little money they make even though they make a little above the natural average in pay. The reason teachers complain is because the job is extraordinarily demanding on your stamina, your time, and your sense of independence. Knowing this fact makes it easier to understand why the average K-12 teacher you meet doesn't seem any more intelligent (or even knowledgeable about what he or she teaches) than the average person. What you know about the subject(s) as a teacher is nearly valueless for your survival at the job because the job is mostly about activity management more than actual learning. In a public school, you are given the administrative support, class size, and items in the room that are merely sufficient for a daycare center. Yet you are expected to transform alternately shiftless and spastic teenagers into lifelong learners. You may one day be teaching a subject like history, English, or a foreign language and realize that most of the kids enrolled in your class are about five years behind in maturity. You may be assigned to teach first-year Spanish and then realize that not even the kids who speak Spanish as a first language are ready for the rigors of the class.
You will never be able to get all the paperwork done without extending your workweek to at least fifty-five hours a week. Do you know any high school teachers who spend less time on the job? The chances are that they teach subjects easier to grade like lower-level math, phys. ed., public speaking, drama, or music. About everyone else is overwhelmed with planning, grading, and administrative paperwork. Somewhere in there they make time to teach 270 minutes of classes everyday.
The amount of independence granted to you will depend on your years of experience and the subject you teach. Here's a hint: If the principal every taught the subject or merely took the subject as a student, there's a greater chance he or she will be trying to tell you exactly how to teach--even how to arrange your furniture. If the principal is a former special ed. teacher, do not take an assignment at that school no matter what--unless you're a special ed. teacher. Former special ed. teachers can be wonderfully supportive, but they can be the absolute worst evaluators of teachers because of their tendency to always be guided by hindsight. Special ed. teachers work a very demanding job, but they have a narrower range of responsibility as those who usually adapt the classroom teacher's plan for a few as opposed to classroom teachers who usually do all the lesson planning for all students and receive the brunt of criticism if the plan doesn't work. |
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Anonymous |
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September 10, 2007 |
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I would not immediately recommend teaching. It is a demanding and largely thankless occupation. It can certainly be rewarding, but the rewards are few and far between. The pay is not terrible, but people with a similar level of education in other occupations would certainly hope to be better off than a teacher. If I were considering teaching now, I would certainly think very carefully about not doing it. Having said all of this, I know a lot of teachers who love their jobs, find the work very rewarding, and are generally well liked by the students. They would, however, agree that their job is not easy, and that they had to work very hard to achieve their results. |
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| Interesting Fact |
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| Of all professions in the U.S., journalists are credited with having the largest vocabulary with approximately 20,000 words (about twice the US adult average). |
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