TeachingA Story by KnoxxehEnglish paper Teaching: Career Paper By Wesley Hollifield Wesley Hollifield Teachers are a very important part of today’s society; they shape the minds of the individuals that will lead us to tomorrow. Teachers help kids decide what they want to be when they grow up. Whether that is a fire fighter, a cook, or even a teacher themselves teachers are still a major part in it. Even if the student doesn’t find what he wants to be in school, he can figure it out by things that he does in his life like get a job as a dishwasher at a restaurant and at some point figures out he wants to be a cook. Teachers are still important in teaching the skills needed to be successful at their job that they choose. Teachers need personal skills like being able to talk in front of a large audience. They have to learn how to help people with problems on the subject that they teach. But most importantly they have to be able to give information to the kids that they will be able to understand and comprehend. Teachers want their kids to remember what they had taught them at least the jest of it. The way your students do reflects themselves as teachers as well, having to find ways to give the information in a very clear way. Teachers want to send their students forwards not backwards in learning, and they definitely don’t want the children to be in the same place they were at the start of the years than in the end. The salary of teaching isn’t high what so ever, a lot of teachers get paid very low depending on what kind of school you work for. The starting salary for a teacher in secondary school which is junior high school and senior high school is 31,753. Now this salary is nothing to brag about for a teacher this pay is very low. College professors make much more than that which is around 100,000 thousand. Depending on how long you work at your school, this determines how much you will get paid. Just like an older employee wouldn’t get paid as little as a first year teachers would, If you work at a school long enough your pay could be as high as 47,740 to 76,100 thousand dollars. Teaching is usually in one school and is usually indoors rather than outdoors though there are some places that have class outside sometimes. If you are a teacher that has a permanent job most likely you won’t sway away from the place you work in your school much. Now if you are a substituent teacher you work in many different schools with many different kids. There are sometimes things like a person is hired by the school to be a substitute and isn’t trained perfectly in one area in school. Or you could be a student teacher which is a student from college who doesn’t get paid to be there. Student teachers have to pay to be there with college money . This part of your school training in college is a key part in deciding what grade and what style of teaching you want to use. Over 1.1 million secondary school teachers are employed in the United States; they are working for junior high and senior high school. The education that you need for teaching takes many steps. First you have to get a high school diploma to attend college, then after that you must enroll in college and complete your bachelor’s degree. Then you must complete a teachers certification program. A lot of programs in education include the courses necessary to apply state teacher certification. Once that is all done there is only one other thing you can do and that is to advance in your field. Joining professional organizations can help you with advancing these organizations could be some like the AFT or the NEA. To be successful at this type of career you must be able to respect young people’s thought and opinions. You also have to be interested on where they want to go in life and you have to want to help them achieve that. Also a very big trait you need is you must be patience, teenage years are confusing most times for kids so they won’t always act like you want them to. Some students may even be affected by this time shown through how they do in school or how hard they might work. It’s good to be supportive through this time and help the kids be better than they think they are so they can be successful in high school and in retrospect successful in college afterwards. If you want to do teaching but don’t exactly know what grade of teaching you want to go into the time of student teaching is exactly the solution. During student teaching you teach at various grades and various schools so you can decide what type of teacher you are and how you want to teach your classroom. Though stress can get to teachers their first year of teaching. This stress can be from children not respecting them or just from their first year all together. Though teaching doesn’t pay exactly the highest and may not be looked at as really important. The job of teaching is still a great career to go into and help kids achieve what they want to be when their older. Each teacher teaches a kid a new thing no matter what it is the kids knows something new because of his teacher. That’s why I believe teaching is the right career for me because I want to be able to help kids on the road to what they want to be.
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Added on November 22, 2011 Last Updated on November 30, 2011 AuthorKnoxxehFarmington, NYAboutHello my name is Wesley, i am a writer and i will always be a writer its my favorite thing to do because life can be boring at times but i can create a world where i can do anything be anybody that's .. more..Writing
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