Teaching

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Teaching Leah
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Nature of the Work

• Teachers act as facilitators to help students
  learn and apply concepts to math, science,
  english, and history.
• Teachers observe, evaluate, plan, assign lessons,
  prepare, present, listen, grade papers, and meet
  with parents.
• Secondary school teachers assist students who are
  choosing courses, careers, colleges, and jobs.
• Teachers work with students from varied
  religious, ethnic, and racial backgrounds.
• Also, teachers conduct various classroom
  activities, supervise extracurricular activities,
  accompany students on field trips, and
  participate in educational workshops and
  conferences.

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Training and Education

• Becoming a public school teacher requires
  completion of a bachelors degree from a teacher
  education program. Then obtaining a license.
• Secondary school teachers most often major in the
  subject that they plan to teach.
• Not only do teachers have to be knowledgeable
  about the subject they teach, but they need to be
  able to communicate, trust, depend, and
  understand the needs of their students.
• Some teachers may attain a professional
  certification.
• This certification may allow the teacher to earn
  special benefits, such as higher salaries.

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Employment

• Kindergarten, elementary, middle, and secondary
  school teachers held 3.5 million jobs in 2008.
• Of those 3.5 million jobs
• 179,500 kindergarten teachers
• 1.5 million elementary teachers
• 659,500 middle school teachers
• 1.1 million secondary school teachers

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Job Outlook

• Employment of kindergarten, elementary, middle,
  and secondary school teachers is expected to grow
  as fast as the average for all occupations.
  Expected to grow 13 between 2008 and 2018.
• Now through 2018 the overall student enrollments
  are expected to rise more slowly than in the past
  as children of the baby-boom generation leave the
  school system.
• Job opportunities for teachers vary with the
  grade level, locality, and subject taught.
• Some schools have difficulty hiring qualified
  teachers in some subject areas.
• The supply of teachers will increase if there is
  better pay, improved job aspects, and greater
  public interest in education.

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The Earnings

• Annual wages of kindergarten, elementary, middle,
  and secondary school teachers ranged from
• 47,100 to 51,180 in May 2008
• The lowest 10
• 30,970 to 34,280
• The top 10
• 75,190 to 80,970
• Teachers beginning with a bachelors degree
  earned an average of 33, 227 in 2005-2006.
• Teachers can boost their earnings by receiving
  extra pay for coaching sports, supervising
  extracurricular activities, getting a masters
  degree, and teaching summer school classes.

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What I Learned About My Career Interest

• I learned what it takes to be a teacher. You have
  to not only be knowledgeable, but you have to be
  able to communicate with your students, assist
  them when they need help, and be open to all
  opinions and suggestions.
• I also learned that job opportunities depend on
  what subject you can teach, what grade level you
  are certified to teach, and what school districts
  you can teach at.

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Works Cited

• Physicist. 19 March 2010. 26 April
  2010 lthttp//www.bls.gov/k12/math04.htmgt. 
• TeachersKindergarten, Elementary, Middle, and
  Secondary. December 2009. 26 April
  2010 lthttp//www.bls.gov/oco/ocos318.htmnaturegt. 
  
• Works Cited. August 2004. 26 April
  2009 lthttp//openc.k12.or.us/citeintro/citeintro.p
  hp?GrdSec gt.