What Does Being a Teacher Really Entail?

What does being a teacher really entail? Most of us have had a teacher throughout our lives, and not only in school but also in life.Teaching is a very substantial responsibility because the lessons that are taught will stick with some people forever, and teachers can have a very big impact on someone’s life. I’ve had many teachers throughout the years, and I have learned a lot from some of them, and although the work may come in abundance, I want to be the one who impacts and changes peoples lives. Theres much more to being a teacher than just teaching, they carry many other functions that follow with the authority.

For every single course, High School teachers will develop a course syllabus that outlines the topics meant to be taught within a quarter, semester, or year. Also, in addition High School teachers create daily lesson plans for each course, and prepare lesson plans for a specific class such as math, english, science, history, etc. In a class period, they complete attendance tasks, collect homework, review the previous day’s lesson, present the new lessons through which ever tactic the teacher thinks fits best. Another responsibility for teachers is to check students understanding of concepts & skills through written and/or oral exercises that the teacher has assigned, teachers will also assign, tests, quizzes, homework, and classwork as well. Personally, the responsibilities that are most enjoyable are working with kids and helping them learn, and teach them skills & tools to use later in life. Although I would not particularly like grading all of the tests, quizzes, homework, etc. When a student has a poor outcome on a test or any other assigned work it results in lowering the student’s grade and maybe even failing ...

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...d for teachers. The social needs for being a teacher include communication skills, patience, tolerance, resourcefulness, and being able to speak publicly in front of an entire class.

I think this career could work for me because I like to work with kids and I’m already used to the school hours. It’s a steady job and has good enough pay for me to make a living, I also enjoy working with and around people and being social. Living in New Jersey can be expensive so I need a career that will be able to support me. I’m fun, nice and patient so I can work with people well and I want to educate young kids. I think being a teacher would also be a learning experience for me as well and this career will provide me with enough money and it also provides me with benefits and I want to become more organized and resourceful and I believe that this job can really help me with that.