I have always thought about being a teacher. I know its a ton of work just wondering if anyone here is one and what they think of it.
Being a Teacher
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Kelemvor
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My mom is one and loves it. It's just when you have bratty kids that it can be a pain. But she teaches 1st grade so most kids don't have too much of an attitude by then.
SHe taught as her career for along time, then stopped when she had kids. THen after 12 years or so went back and started sub'ing and then a few years after that started teaching again and has been for the past15-20 years.
But if you go for something higher up you may have to specialize in a topic like Math or something so depending on your likes, you have to decide on that.
SHe taught as her career for along time, then stopped when she had kids. THen after 12 years or so went back and started sub'ing and then a few years after that started teaching again and has been for the past15-20 years.
But if you go for something higher up you may have to specialize in a topic like Math or something so depending on your likes, you have to decide on that.
Yoyoyohowsdajello and I are pre-service teachers. I think it'll be a stressful job, but rewarding, and I'm looking forward to graduating and getting a job.
moshquerade
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- Nov 1, 2001
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yeah i would only want to teach High school. I would enjoy teaching business or computer science.
It's very worth it if you are truly interested in it and actually value the subject you are teaching. There are too many bad teachers out there due to lack of subject experience.
yeah i mean it may be a low start pay but you don't work 3 months of the year plus vacations. Being a teacher is appealing to me because I like to speak in front of people, I like kids, and I love to travel. The way I see it the only way I'll get to travel the way I want to is if I live in another country working 80+ hours a week doing financial work..or as a teacher and do cheap travel during the summer....real cheap lol.
the US needs far more good teachers out there. Good teachers should be making 60k starting salary, but instead they make a paltry 30k entry salary.
YOyoYOhowsDAjello
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It's heavily dependent upon area, level of teaching (primary or secondary), etc.
With a Masters and two Bachelors, teaching high school in this area I'll start at about $36k if I get a full time position. I'll top out after 15 years around 60k.
60k is pretty nice. yeah its after 15 years but thats for doing the same amount of work as before and all the same benefits.
I know i could make more doing other stuff..but thats a livable amount especially if married with someone that works.
I've seen high school english teachers who have been teaching for their entire career retire at 80k$ salary. This is after 40 years of teaching.
The Starting salary is 26k-33k with Chem/Phys Ed making the higher amount.
I feel that good teachers serve as the basis for what I have become. To see that I made more than their starting salary doing a chem eng part time co-op sickens me. There is no way I would be where I am without good teachers, and after struggling to make ends meet with 30k salary part-time, I can only guess how they are struggling when they are making only 26k$ -- especially considering they want to start families, get a home of their own, a car to get to work...
Granted, they are "only" being paid for 3/4 of the year, but still. Even if they were to work summer school, they would maybe rake in 35k$? Another idea would be for the teacher to get a part-time second job to help make ends meet -- unfortunately, that takes away from their overall ability to teach well...
60k is liveable - yes, but thats after 15 years worth of loans and mortage have been adding up, not to mention the increasing amount of student loans that have to be taken out...
That's a common misconception. Studies show that teachers put in the same hours in a year as anyone else. It's just compressed with much longer days and time spent on the weekends.
Im sorry, but did I make a misconception? Maybe I read your post incorrectly? (Or maybe I typed mine out incorrectly?)
YOyoYOhowsDAjello
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Yeah, the pay aspect of things wasn't really worrying me when I thought as a couple we were going to be taking in twice the base level (crappy teacher pay + crappy teacher pay = not too bad). I thought I had things pretty well sorted out until a few weeks ago 
*sigh*
*sigh*
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