The software tool, Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most versatile tools that the huge software giant has given to us.
Business has already discovered the power of this amazing tool.
But there are a lot of lessons plans that would benefit from the tools and resources that PowerPoint can offer to make your [...]
Deciding to become a full time teacher is a big step.
You may be able to remember teachers from your youth that seemed to make it look easy and fun to be a teacher.
So if you think you might have the temperament for teaching and that it would be a rewarding career, [...]
Like any job, teaching children is often idealized and romanticized by young people preparing for a career in education.
Then once the reality of what life is like as a teacher hits, it can come as a rude shock.
This does not mean that the ideals and values of teaching the next generation [...]
When you set out to become a teacher, you set out to do more than just learn the skill of presenting information to a group of students.
A teacher is much more than just someone who hands out information and then gives tests and grades.
When you become a teacher, you become an [...]
One reason that many if not most teachers go into teaching in the first place is that you have a love of children or of youth and you not only love teaching them but you love hanging around with them.
Teachers are very often driven by an inner passion for their students and for [...]
If you are preparing to become a teacher with the anticipation of leading a group of 20 or more students into the process of academic discovery, it is easy to let most of your concentration be focused on academics and on focusing that class on the school work at hand.
You envision yourself in [...]
When you think of career fields that call for courage, jobs that may call for loss of life are most often thought of.
So the career fields of firemen, policemen or the military are jobs that involve a great deal of courage that we cannot discount.
Teachers, by contract dont really think of themselves [...]
Preparing to become a teacher is a big undertaking.
Its easy to get caught up in getting through college with a degree in teaching, passing your teachers certification exam, finding the kind of teaching position you want and getting through the interview that there is one more level of challenge that awaits you that you [...]
When you determine that you want to be a teacher of children or teenagers, that is much more than a career decision.
It is a commitment to the future generation and an expression of a nobility in you that would not be seen in any other way.
Unlike many other lines of work, [...]
Becoming a teacher today is means learning to teach with new tools and resources that were unheard of only twenty years ago.
There is almost no part of the education experience that is untouched by the computer or the internet.
So the more you look to becoming a “cyber teacher”, the more you [...]