Title: Weighing the Reasons to Become a Teacher
Headings: Weighing the Decision: To Teach or Not to Teach
Weighing the Decision: To Teach or Not to Teach
Education May be Calling So Be Ready with an Answer
Investment in the Future
Rewards of Student Success
Improving Your Own Mind
Teacher Peers as Support
Teacher Pay
Teacher shortages
The Myth of Summers Off
Teachers Who are Parents
The myth of tenure
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Content: Teachers must adjust their teaching to meet the needs of students. Adjusting is a challenge, but finding the methods that work best for each student is rewarding. On occasion, students will return to talk about how helpful a teacher was was in helping them grow. 03
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Improving Your Own Mind
Teachers know that the best way to learn a topic is to teach that topic. Annie Murphy Paul describes in her article​ (2011) in TIME magazine "The Protégé Effect," how scientists researched student teachers acting as tutors. The scientists found that the student teachers "worked harder" were "more accurate" and more effective in an application of knowledge. Murphy Paul notes,
"In what scientists have dubbed 'the protégé effect,' student teachers score higher on tests than pupils who are learning only for their own sake known that the best way to understand a concept is to explain it to someone else. She notes this has been true far back in history, quoting the Roman philosopher Seneca who said, “While we teach, we learn.” 04
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Teacher Peers as Support
Teachers working with other teachers has always happened in the past, but the implementation of mandated personal learning communities (PLC) in schools had formalized this form of support. The design to have teachers collaborate and work as like-minded people can be a privilege, especially if the teachers have a positive attitude and a sense of humor.