Top Job Thursday

Considering Becoming a Teacher?

Teaching is a challenging job but with numerous rewards! Some of the many benefits include the following:

• Experience the Joy of Making a Difference: Teachers mold the future through impacting their students’ views and understandings. They foster creativity, develop character, give students lenses with which to view the world and provide students with the skills they need to reach their full potential. Many individuals are attracted to teaching by a sense of service, because they want to make a clear, tangible difference in the lives of others.
  

• Have a Vocation, Not a Job: For many people, their work is a means to an end. They work for a paycheck in order to live their lives. But those called to teach have a true vocation. To those with whom you interact most during your day of teaching - the students - you are not an employee but a friend, a mentor and a guide to the world.

• Enjoy Interpersonal Interaction: Teachers interact with their students, other teachers and community members regularly. Many decide to pursue teaching over other careers for this personal interaction.

• Benefit From Variety: Teaching offers a great deal of variety. Each year, teachers get to work with a new group of students with unique personalities, experiences and ideas. Teachers can introduce new topics into the courses, change the way they teach a particular topic or design new classes to keep things new and exciting.

• Be a Lifelong Leaner: You will never learn a topic better than when you start to teach it. Students always ask the most interesting questions, prompting you to dig deeper and learn more.

• Spend More Time With Your Family
  One of the great perks of a teacher’s schedule is that it matches up with a child’s school schedule. If you teach in the same school system that your children attend, you will have the same vacation schedule and will be able to spend your summers home with your children. Speaking of vacation….

• Enjoy Lots of Vacation
  While some schools have moved to a year-round schedule, where teachers’ vacation is divided up throughout the year, most teaching jobs allow you to have a couple of months off in the summer where you can choose to get another job, teach summer school, or just relax and revamp for the next year.
  

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