Challenges Of Being A Teacher

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While growing up I loved helping and I still do just in different ways now. I remember when I was clueless about how the world around me worked. I started to notice that I enjoyed being helped and then being able to return the favor to others. It just so happened to be a moment in high school where I found opportunities to that allowed me to work with people. I got told by my art teacher that The Frist Center has possible volunteer opportunities that one can be a part of. I decided that it would be best for me to look into that volunteer opportunities. After a long time of never hearing back about it, I finally got an email to come by and start filling out some paper work and introduction course with other new volunteers. I started there near …show more content…
The aspects of being a teacher requires you being a leader and having knowledge and being able to express it in a way that others can interpret it and learn from it. In most cases to become a teacher you have to have a college degree in the field of teaching that you want to teach. The job outlook for becoming a teacher is basically secured if you get through college with a degree. The field of teaching has changed a lot based upon what the standard way of teaching is setup to be. There are formats like common core coming up that changed how certain ways of math have been taught. Then there are new programs where you can start off in by observing a teacher for a while then diving straight into teacher to get a feel for it before ever going thru the whole teaching program. It’s quite a unique way in which the teaching program has changed compared to the past were you start off by mastering everything in a field of learning and then go out to be a student teacher followed by teaching before you get to experience what it really is. The big thing with being a teacher is having the patience to deal with multiple students and be able to teach everyone at once with having issues

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