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If you are just preparing to enter the ranks of professional teachers and you are not a recent college graduate, its easy to feel a bit insecure and ask that question, “Can you teach if you are old?” Its a fair question even if you are not so far along in life that you [...]
December 30th, 2009 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
We require a lot of our teachers.
It is one way that society maintains a high quality of education that we require that our teachers go through extensive training and are certified as ready to teach our students before they are permitted to take over a class and carry the title of “teacher”.
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November 2nd, 2009 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
The software tool, Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most versatile tools that the huge software giant has given to us.
Business has already discovered the power of this amazing tool.
But there are a lot of lessons plans that would benefit from the tools and resources that PowerPoint can offer to make your [...]
August 26th, 2009 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
The teaching profession is a unique career field in a lot of ways.
Because you are taking on the challenge of educating children or teenagers, along way you will become very much a part of their society with all the positive and negatives that go with that.
Its for that reason that [...]
August 6th, 2009 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
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 [...]
July 5th, 2009 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
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 [...]
February 7th, 2009 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
Most of us learn a lot about how to take exams when we are in high school or college.
But the day you go to take your test to gain your teacher’s certification which will give you the license to teach anywhere in the state can be a day of significant stress.
The [...]
November 2nd, 2008 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
One of the bibles of the business world is a book called Dress for Success.
This book describes how to dress for the roll of a successful business person and that wardrobe will help you step into that role.
In many ways the Dress for Success tells us that how we dress for [...]
August 2nd, 2008 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
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 [...]
July 10th, 2008 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments
When you think of career fields that call for courage, jobs that may call for loss of life are most often thought of.
So the career fields of firemen, policemen or the military are jobs that involve a great deal of courage that we cannot discount.
Teachers, by contract dont really think of themselves [...]
July 10th, 2008 | Posted in becoming a teacher | No Comments