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: They use the school communities, large and small, to teach about kindness and social skills. Teachers use all these lessons and coupled them with subject area content to help students meet the challenges in the future. 02
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Rewards of Student Success
Student success depends on teachers, and helping students to succeed is rewarding. According to a report issued by the Rand Corporation,
"Teachers matter more to student achievement than any other aspect of schooling...When it comes to student performance on reading and math tests, a teacher is estimated to have two to three times the impact of any other school factor, including services, facilities, and even leadership." Teachers get to celebrate accomplishments big and small throughout the school year. 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.