What is a good career choice for a teacher with a masters degree who isn't having luck teaching?

Answer 1

You know, I have been teaching 8 years now...I have taught 3rd for 2 years, 4th for 3 years and first gor 3 years. I am wondering the same things you are. I don't really like it and there is SOOO much pressure with test scores/parents/etc. We don't make nearly enough money for what we have to deal with. I teach in the inner city and am tired of the verbal and sometimes physical abuse inflicted upon me by the students and their parents. I am tired of people coming to my room to monitor me because our school is not making AYP...adequate yearly progress. If you find out anything PLEASE let me know....I NEED TO DO something else too B4 I GO INSANE. I used to love kids and now I thank GOD I don't have any yet.

Answer 2

It would help to know what kind of bad luck you are having teaching. If you don't fit in or don't like the area in which you are teaching have you consider teaching in different areas? Lets say that you are currently teaching english to 5th graders you could possibly move either to a higher or lower grade to teach the same subject or change subjects all together. Have you considered working with special needs children. The teaching will be harder but the gratification and satisfaction of watching these children blossom is well worth the extra work. There is also a need for teachers or instructors with Pregnant Teens. If you are seriously set on leaving teaching all together but staying in the education field look into working with the school boards. I wish you luck in which ever path you choose.

Answer 3

In the State of Ohio, for example, to retain the teaching license now finds most educators obtaining a master's degree or having to log an inordinate amount of in-service hours. Back in the day in Ohio - under the teaching certification program - the preference may have been to hire educators with no post-graduate credit hours, since they would have been on the bottom rung of the pay scale. But at that time period, someone with a master's degree and no teaching experience probably was eying college academia, anyway.

Answer 4

You don't say what kind of teaching you're doing or what kind of master's degree you have. For example, if your master's is in education and you hate teaching high school, try working at a community college. Most instructors there only need a master's degree. Or get into educational publishing, where your knowledge will be useful. Or see if you can get into corporate training. Or try one of those tutoring/test prep places where rich folks send their kids to learn how to pass the SAT. Or you may be able to get into administration at a school.

If your master's is in something other than education, then you probably need to get career counseling to find out what field a person with that master's degree will have success in.

Answer 5

I've always hated teachers but the whole secrete to teaching is to teach a person who doesn't know how to do what you're trying to teach them. I loved it when I made a teacher mad and then I told the class how to do it easier cause I helped the teacher in the long run. So figure out the easiest way to do things and do it that way.

Answer 6

Try something different!
or what type of teaching is it?
You could still do teacher but just in something different
like if you are doing teaching at a school then do sports teaching or drama teaching
Or go down to a Teaching Assestent TA
good luck

Answer 7

Your own business. Something you can control and work at when you want to. Teachers are great at teaching so why not have your own business that you can teach to others. Have a look NBLori dot com. Put it together correctly and you will find out about a business that you might be interested in.

Let me know what you think!! Good Luck!!

Answer 8

Writing a book, Becoming a journalist, become a professional in your field of study, become a politician, professional tutor, Home schooling teacher, phone homework helper, work in girl scouts or boyscout, as an administrator, become a principle or councilor, find a job in a professional enviroment, that requires your major as a field.

Answer 9

Teachers make excellent Real Estate agents.

Every time you sell or buy a house you have to teach the sellers or the buyers how to do it. Every sale is different and has its own challenges and rewards.

Answer 10

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