Becoming a Teacher

The Courage of a Teacher

When you think of career fields that call for courage, jobs that may call for loss of life are…

Meeting the Class for the First Time

Preparing to become a teacher is a big undertaking. Its easy to get caught up in getting through college…

Good Reasons to Teach

The teaching profession is a unique career field in a lot of ways. Because you are taking on the…

Test Driving a Teaching Career

Deciding to become a full time teacher is a big step. You may be able to remember teachers from…

So What Do You Want to Teach?

When a person introduces themselves to you as a teacher, the question that you invariably ask is “So what…

Breaking Into the Working World of Teachers

In every college in the country, there are ambitious and starry eyed youngsters who are preparing for a career…

Giving Your Students an Appreciation of the Arts

When you set out to become a teacher, it isn’t always enough just to teach a rote set of knowledge. You want to give your students an appreciation for the each knowledge area so they not only know things and how to do things, they also understand the history behind the knowledge they have and have an ability to appreciate the nuances of what they have learned. There may be no area of learning that this concept…

A Modern Way to Start Your Career in Teaching

Not everybody goes into teaching by getting a degree right out of high school and making it a profession from there on out. Many wonderful teachers take on the profession as a second career. There are a lot of reasons it happens like that. Perhaps you are unhappy in your current career but you keep doing a certain job because it pays the bills. It is very easy in youth to just fall into a job niche…

A Little Psychology Goes A Long Way

If you are working your way through teacher’s college, you are getting a lot of great education that will give you the knowledge and the skills to teach young minds in the not too distant future. But you may not entirely know what kind of minor to declare or what kind of elective classes to take that will harmonize well with your concentration on becoming an educator. One suggestion that would help you tremendously would be for…

Becoming a Truly Professional Teacher

There is something so satisfying about working with a true professional in any line of work. When you have a professional on the job in any area of specialization watching that person in action is like watching a work of art. They exude the knowledge, the skill, the devotion to doing a top notch job and the confidence that they are the professional who can do the job that is missing in a lesser talent. That is…