cannot have any felonies and even then certain crimes or accused of crimes will get you the boot which is not even constitutional or legal but no one cares b/c "its for the kids, think about the children.."
also need to do a background check and yes even register your finger prints.. plus a bachelors i think..
You don't make much money and everyone hates you for making too much money. No Child Left Behind means that within about ten years no matter what you do all your efforts will be recorded as a failure.
I would suggest teaching anywhere else in the world. The US is a lost cause. For example, in New Jersey the governor is slashing funding for public schools and using state money to subsidize private schools.
I will explain my situation to you. I am from Turkey. And I am a physics teacher candidate over here. Medium of instruction in that university is English. In Turkey, Teacher salaries is about 12,000 $ per a year. I will be poor 馃檪 However, I do not care financial needs. I just love teaching someone.
That is my career plan: I will graduate from there. I will go to Boston, MA. I will apply the office to be teacher in public schools. Therefore, I will earn sufficient money. Also, I will register Tuition Reduction Program for masters' degree.
I have two question:
1. I am foreigner. Do Americans hate me? "He you! You stole our job! Go home!"
2. What do you think about this plan?
P.S I have Green Card.
immature kids may have issues with you but dont blame or think it is everyone. i had a problem with a canadain teacher as most of my class when i was a kid. you might live your life in a small bigoted town and be picked on and think the world is like that and one day leave find a new town city and realize how different other ppl are and who actually appreciate you and find a hot @$$ girl which would make me a lil angry if i wanted her for myself .." damn foreigner coming over hear taking all of our girls with his sexy accent and nice milky tan..
i recommend you try charter or private school kids are more respectful and you are paid more possibly even appreciated which i think good teachers should be
what is high? i mean what mental mindset do you have to be in or induced with and what kinda drug needs to be involved to be considered high?
anyways.. i am not sure if you can get a job in highschool with a green card i know some government jobs wont hire you and require citizenship.. not sure if that applies to high school teachers..
maybe its just cops and dmv type jobs
I think it is hard sometimes because teachers have to deal with a lot of kids who are so out of control these days.And if they punish them or try to protect themselves they are fired and arrested.I don't even think teachers have any right anymore.
Maybe they should bring back the spanking punishment that they had a long time ago.I bet there would be no trouble after that.
The problem is that the Powers That Be are politicians / businessmen / lawyers who know nothing about what goes on in a classroom; they surround themselves with former educators who've become multi-six-figure-salary yesmen; and they pursue Ivory Tower objectives to compensate for a society high on lip-service about how important education is but low on actual value with regard to money, time, energy and occupational esteem (eg, what would you rather be: a baseball player or a teacher?).
Further, because the "business model" is being pushed (after all, educating a human being is like manufacturing bottles of soda: the product itself has, of course, no input [read: no responsibility] regarding its own outcome), students quickly get the message that if they fail, it's always the teachers' fault, so why bother doing any real work. Consequently, more kids fail and more tests have to be watered down or grades fudged, otherwise the Powers That Be say, "Your school failed--we're shutting you down," so they can make room for charter schools which virtually pick and choose who they're going to educate (avoiding as best they can the special ed / low achiever / behavior problem crowd).
In effect, there is a war on against public education to hide society's shortsightedness and ass-backwards values when it comes to preparing for the future (the long-term consequences are already becoming apparent: witness the rise in remedial classes in colleges). It's a war--it's a con game!--and one of its greatest perpertrators is the Emperor, er, Mayor of NYC, to whom a judge finally said, If you're going to close schools, do it legally and for good reason, not after you've set the system up for failure.
And for those who think teachers have it so easy, may I remind you that 1) no one put a gun to your head and said you can't be a teacher: you made a choice regarding what you want to do for a living; and 2) go teach a class for 30 days. You won't last a week.
/ tip-of-iceberg rant
That's also intended as a union-busting measure, another "educational" high priority on the PTB to-do list. Yes, over time union powers have become calcified and abused, but this is what happens when any system is in power long enough (should we dump capitalism because of the abuses it allows?). It's the human condition, and a union recalibration is definitely in order. But let's remember why unions arose in the first place: because of the rampant abuse of power and authority by bosses / supervisors / etc, when employees had no protection.
My girlfriend just graduated college with her B.A. in Elementary Ed. and English, she wants to be a teacher.
Seems like a rather hard process. She had to do quite a bit of student teaching and interning and her classes seemed to involved a lot of work, but this may vary from school to school.
She is now going to get her masters which involves more student teaching and interning. So by the time she gets her masters she will have a lot of teaching experience under her belt and be ready to take on a classroom.
Seems difficult enough.
Originally posted by Wild Shadow
cannot have any felonies and even then certain crimes or accused of crimes will get you the boot which is not even constitutional or legal but no one cares b/c "its for the kids, think about the children.."also need to do a background check and yes even register your finger prints.. plus a bachelors i think..
indeed....my girls parents both were teachers(her father became super for awhile).....in fact her cousin has even become a teacher....and between us if he made it with his temper then it's not that hard to do.