One reason that many if not most teachers go into teaching in the first place is that you have a love of children or of youth and you not only love teaching them but you love hanging around with them.
Teachers are very often driven by an inner passion for their students and for [...]
Like any job, teaching children is often idealized and romanticized by young people preparing for a career in education.
Then once the reality of what life is like as a teacher hits, it can come as a rude shock.
This does not mean that the ideals and values of teaching the next generation [...]
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 [...]
There is a phenomenon that all public speakers encounter when they are addressing a crowd that if you thought about it very much, it would get to you.
It is a phenomenon that any teacher who is trying to impart knowledge to a room full of students will experience as well.
And if you [...]
The last two decades have taught us a great deal about how students work and think and the differences between different students and how those differences change the way those students process information and learn.
On the surface, as a teacher, its easy to say, well I cannot change my curriculum to suit every [...]
When you set out to become a teacher, you set out to do more than just learn the skill of presenting information to a group of students.
A teacher is much more than just someone who hands out information and then gives tests and grades.
When you become a teacher, you become an [...]
The last two decades have taught us a great deal about how students work and think and the differences between different students and how those differences change the way those students process information and learn.
On the surface, as a teacher, its easy to say, well I cannot change my curriculum to suit every [...]
