Need help deciding on whether or not a teacher.?
I am currently a sophomore at a university that is well known for programs education. I love children and have been teaching swimming lessons for the past four years. I know this is completely different from a living class, but I was hoping you'd give me a little understanding to children. Sometimes I worry if teaching is not really for me. Can anyone tell me positive and negative aspects of work? I am very concerned when I read about him flying 8 hours to write a lesson plan. I've seen a few classroom and have absolutely delighted. I just want to know all sides of the story before getting my degree. All information about the teaching will be welcome.
Other have done a good job answering the question, but here are my two cents: Negatives: low pay in relation to their education. Teachers are not paid very well compared to others with similar education. It is usually enough to live, but as someone said, will not become rich. Salaries can vary greatly from district to another and even within districts, depending on education and experience. I live in the Bay Area of California, and salaries for first year of teaching range from 40 to 60 K a year, which is not bad, but everything is more expensive over here (1 / 2 million for a condo!). Other places that have cost more cheap life have bajos.-Time salaries. You work hard. Most people seem to think that teachers are lazy because we have summer holidays and breaks during the year (winter, spring). First, I do not know a single teacher who does at least some work during breaks, and many work in the classification a good part of them. During the summer, most teachers are planning for next year, the units of tweaking, take classes, or school of summer work. During a typical week, probably put in 60 to 75 hours of work (sometimes more) depending on what work is coming to grade (I teach High School English). I calculated that once, and work at least as many hours per year, as someone who has a job 40 hours a week does. He was put in a lot time, and takes over his life a poco.-Respect. Many people do not respect those who teach. They believe the old Shaw quote: "He who can, does. He who can not, taught. "Generally, people who think this the most are those who would be eaten by a room full of 30 15 years old. Most of them could not get to stop talking, let alone teach them something. I had the great pleasure of seeing a person who has criticized the teachers go into teaching and realize that it is not easy parece.-like faith is required. This could be positive or negative. You hear a lot about how teachers change the lives of the children they teach. This is true, but most the teacher often never know (or at least we will not know until later) the impact they have had a child. He has to have faith that you have done a good job, and stick children that let you know the impact it has had. Positives:-Children. You have to like the age group being taught. I never could teach Junior Highers. They have too many hormones are going crazy, are no longer at the stage where they think the teachers are cool, and (mostly) does not have the intellectual capacity of high-level talks. Some people love, and more power to them. I teach High School because they relate well with children, and they can really talk intelligently about ideas complejas.-colleagues. In general, teachers are interesting, fun people with diverse backgrounds. I had a lot of fun to know my colleagues better, and made a couple of friends perfectly honest-satisfaction of knowing you're doing something that matters. This goes with one's faith, above. It is very satisfying to me that I am helping students to learn the things that matter (although I think they now) .- The "ha ah" moment. There's nothing like blowing the minds of their students. It's so fun to have ideas that they think they are set in stone and show another point of view that completely changes the way we think about things. To view the twinkle in his eyes, see the wheels spinning furiously at the time, and knows he did it are incredible. In short, teaching is hard work. It has long hours, little pay, little respect, and requires a lot of faith that what he is doing. However, I do not see myself doing anything else at this point.
How we use Swim Ways progressive flotation system to teach young children to swim.
