The four general steps to becoming a teacher:
High School Diploma, college preparation and teacher, classroom experiences and student teaching, and Gaining certification
Ways to maximize your educational opportunities in high school:
explore through teaching academies, choose challenging high school courses, maintain a strong academic record, offer to help or tutor others.
Observing your teachers in high school can help you to be a teacher by:
interaction with students, teaching styles, techniques of adapting material for different levels, rules and procedures methods of earning student respect.
While in high school, you can explore college programs by:
Gather information about teacher education programs, guidance staff, teacher recommendations
While in high school, you can gain experience and improve your skills by:
Job Shadowing, volunteering, service learning, part-time work
college preparation and teacher training will involve:
Teaching requires a bachelor's degree, personal interviews, prerequisite courses, minimum grade point average, proficiency tests
Classroom experiences and student teaching will involve:
Observation, helping teachers, tutoring/ student teaching requires in every state, a cooperating teachers supervises and mentors
Gaining certification will involve:
certified teachers, Educations programs usually follow the licensing requirements of the state
Keys to beginning the path toward teaching:
Practicing building build boards, taking the teacher academy programs, Dual enrollment, volunteering, get a job
Setting a career goal involves:
what subject you want to teach, what age group you would like to teach, outline steps to complete each goal, Determine specific ways to complete these steps, reevaluate strategies periodically, consider roadblocks and challenges
Your portfolio illustrates:
Personal portfolio, they show how you have developed over time
Characteristics of an effective portfolio:
Have a clear purpose-record and highlight experiences and abilities
A portfolio should include:
Skills, essay on your goals and interests, pass jobs, information about you, Journal entries, and projects and assignments
teaching academies:
Specialized programs within high schools that help students to explore the teaching professions through classes, observations, and hands-on experiences
teacher education programs
university or college programs that prepare students to become teachers
Grants
money that is given for a specific purpose, such as educational expenses, that does not have to be paid
job shadowing
following a person on the job for a few hours, a day, or even longer to experience what the person's career typically involves to gain valuable insight into the person's daily tasks.
service learning
A type of volunteering effort that links classroom learning with hands-on experience in order to meet community needs
prerequisite course
A course that must be completed before entering a program or prior to taking a higher-level course
proficiency test
A test that measures skill and knowledge in a subject area
student teaching
A period during which a teacher education student practices and acquires teaching skill under the supervision of an experienced teacher
cooperating teacher
An experienced teacher who supervises and mentors a student teacher
certified teacher
A person who has met the state requirements for teacher preparation
reciprocal agreements
In teaching, agreements between state that allow teacher certified to teach in one state to teach in another state that is part of the agreement
