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A Little Psychology Goes a Long Way
...If you are working your way through teacher's college, you are getting a lot of great education that will give you the knowledge and the skills to teach young minds in the not too distant future ...

A Modern Way to Start Your Career in Teaching
...Not everybody goes into teaching by getting a degree right out of high school and making it a profession from there on out ...



Becoming a Truly Professional Teacher
...There is something so satisfying about working with a true professional in any line of work ...

Breaking into the Working World of Teachers
...In every college in the country, there are ambitious and starry eyed youngsters who are preparing for a career in teaching ...

Can You Teach if You Are Old?
...If you are just preparing to enter the ranks of professional teachers and you are not a recent college graduate, its easy to feel a bit insecure and ask that question, "Can you teach if you are old?" Its a fair question even if you are not so far along in life that you consider yourself to be "old" ...

Decorum in Teaching
...One reason that many if not most teachers go into teaching in the first place is that you have a love of children or of youth and you not only love teaching them but you love hanging around with them ...

Giving Your Students an Appreciation of the Arts
...When you set out to become a teacher, it isn't always enough just to teach a rote set of knowledge ...

Going to Bat for Your Students
.... Becoming a Teacher changes you or rather it allows that inner teacher to come to dominance and become what you were put here to be in the first place. ...

Good Reasons to Teach
...The teaching profession is a unique career field in a lot of ways ...

I Want to Teach in Your School
...A job interview to teach in a public school or in any institution of learning for children or youth is unlike any other kind of job interview ...

Meeting the Class for the First Time
...Preparing to become a teacher is a big undertaking ...

Passing the Teacher's Certification Test
...Most of us learn a lot about how to take exams when we are in high school or college ...

Preparing to Become Certified
...We require a lot of our teachers ...

So What Do You Want to Teach?
...When a person introduces themselves to you as a teacher, the question that you invariably ask is "So what do you teach?" How the person answers that question can tell you a lot not only about how they feel about their calling as a teacher and how they feel about their students as well ...

Talking to Students or talking AT them
...There is a phenomenon that all public speakers encounter when they are addressing a crowd that if you thought about it very much, it would get to you ...

Teaching With Powerpoint
...The software tool, Microsoft PowerPoint is one of the most versatile tools that the huge software giant has given to us ...

Test Driving a Teaching Career
...Deciding to become a full time teacher is a big step ...

The Brass Tacks About Teaching
...Like any job, teaching children is often idealized and romanticized by young people preparing for a career in education ...

The Costume of a Teacher
...One of the bibles of the business world is a book called Dress for Success ...

The Courage of a Teacher
...When you think of career fields that call for courage, jobs that may call for loss of life are most often thought of ...

The Cyber Teacher
... Becoming a Teacher today is means learning to teach with new tools and resources that were unheard of only twenty years ago. ...

The Inner Calling to Teach
...When you determine that you want to be a teacher of children or teenagers, that is much more than a career decision ...

The Power of Differentiation
...The last two decades have taught us a great deal about how students work and think and the differences between different students and how those differences change the way those students process information and learn ...

The Social Side of School
...If you are preparing to become a teacher with the anticipation of leading a group of 20 or more students into the process of academic discovery, it is easy to let most of your concentration be focused on academics and on focusing that class on the school work at hand ...

Where the Teacher is Mom
...There is an army of teachers in this country and around the world that get no pay, do not show up at a classroom and get no recognition for the work they do ...