Teachers...any of you think teaching is the wrong profession ?

Answer 1

Well, you can't really get opinions on this question from teachers-in-training because the quit rate is so high. What is it now, 20-30% in the first 5 years?

Why is the quit-rate so high for new teachers?

-Low Pay
-Long hours grading and preparation
-Know-it-all parents and their offspring
-Hassles by administration
-No job gratification
-Parent teacher conferences for high school kids. Come on!
-Kids who expect an A, when they really have low skills.
-Kids want their school experience to mimic a video game.

If you make it past that (plus other stuff), you will make a great teacher. I am entering my 5th year teaching this coming fall...let's see if I am a stat on the quit rate!

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Answer 3

Coupled with your other question, it seems like you are starting to doubt if you should be a teacher. Without knowing you I can't provide any insight. Is everyone cut out to be a teacher....no.

Without knowing how long you have been a teacher, I can tell you that I learned more my first year teaching than I did in college. I can also tell you that I feel sorry for the students I had my first year. I yelled and screamed at them. I thought that was what I was supposed to do. My second year was much better and by my 4th year, I think that I was a good teacher.

Hope this helps

Answer 4

I have thought of becoming a teacher and have been encouraged to be one due to my education and experience, but have been resistant to that since I'm not tolerant of students who are there just to pass the time or take a required course and expect to be "spoon fed" the information and the "A" grade. It depends on what level of school you're talking about. I definitely could not teach anything in highschool or under since there the factor of the parent(s), being ambivalently supportive of the teacher and the school comes into play. I won't babysit in a classroom and I won't tolerate parents who expect that. And, as I read and listen to what I'm saying here, I oughta just realize that teaching isn't for me. It takes a paticular type person to be a good one, and I can vouch, as a long term student all the way in to years of post-graduate college work, that there aren't as many of those particular or "special" type people out there as are employed as teachers. If you can revamp America's attitude toward classroom education all the way from the primary school level to a Bachelor level college degree, then maybe I could be cajoled into that profession, but we've long ago become too mentally lazy to have any real learning mentality in classrooms or by parents of said students. Too much "individuality" in students and complete lack of mental and behavioral discipline makes teaching a very difficult if not impossible profession to endure unless you're trying to earn your wings as an Angel of God, and then even He might ask you what the h--l you thought you were doing undertaking such an impossible profession. Now that I've spoken so lowly of my assuming the profession of teaching (and let me restate here that the problem lies with our cultural attitude towards classroom education), let me be very clear that I think that those people who do take whatever education necessary to become teachers and do pursue the necessary licensing in their State, are "the Eighth Wonder of the Modern World" and are a direct gift from God. Who else would put up with such a mentally lazy culture as that of the general U.S. families who crave tv's and video games and computers more than anything that takes actual mental activity above rote performance. God Bless you all, teachers, as you do your work, and I'm always supportive of pay raises based on education and experience and classroom performance!! You've earned it. You deserve it (some of you). Just don't babysit for your lazy-*** students who's parents would rather argue with you over their darling's low grades than get in with their "darlings" and teach them how to think. Thank you for listening from a long, long term student and once frustrated teacher.

Answer 5

I am considering a career as a teacher and I believe it would be a good career because I truly enjoy teaching others and seeing how I help them learn and improve as a person. But some people just aren't' cut out for teaching.

Answer 6

It is an excellent profession. Don't forget to pay close attention to classroom management courses in college.

Answer 7

It's the wrong profession for anyone who thinks of it as a crimp job. It is not, by any means.

It's also wrong for someone who thinks they'll get rich quick. What a laugh!!!

Answer 8

i m not a teacher but i believe its a noble profession

Answer 9

I hope not, I am in college to become a teacher.

Answer 10

i'm a student and knowing what we put teachers through, yes. however education is very important and you are changing someone's life.