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 [...]
Most of us learn a lot about how to take exams when we are in high school or college.
But the day you go to take your test to gain your teacher’s certification which will give you the license to teach anywhere in the state can be a day of significant stress.
The [...]
If you are just preparing to enter the ranks of professional teachers and you are not a recent college graduate, its easy to feel a bit insecure and ask that question, “Can you teach if you are old?” Its a fair question even if you are not so far along in life that you [...]