Teachers, would you still recommend the profession?
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Anonymous
| I'm interested in teaching. However, after reading that thread and hearing about how preschool teachers were filling out 1000-item questionnaires (and purity trolls judging them for BSing them in order to, you know, teach...), I'm getting the feeling that teaching really is the scapegoat profession of the decade. Current or past teachers, would you still recommend the profession? |
Anonymous
| No no no!!! I wish I was an SLP or OT- you can work with kids in similar ways as teachers with way more freedom, opportunities and professionalism. |
Anonymous
No, I absolutely would not reccomend it to anyone .
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Anonymous
| My husband is a teacher and wouldn't recommend it anymore. |
Anonymous
| No, not at all. I was just thinking today I don't know how I'll make it through the rest of this year. 10 years ago I would have had a different answer. |
Anonymous
| Love a lot about teaching. Love the vacations. Hate the pay and petty nature relating to pay. There is no perfect job, though. And, there are so many different kinds of teaching jobs. OP, what grade/subject are you interested in? Public or private? |
Anonymous
| Regular gen ed classroom heck no! Focus, reading specialist, staff development, speech, ot, esl media, p.e....maybe. |
Anonymous
| Preschool teacher here. I'd only recommend it if you were absolutely in love with your age range. The only reasons (besides pay and healthcare) I show up are because I love my work kids. If I were asked to teach any other grade (except perhaps kindergarten), I'd seriously consider resigning. |
Anonymous
| Only if you are willing to work a lot outside of normal working hours. I work about 4 hours a night on average - from 8pm to midnight. And I get to school about 30 minutes before I have to and stay about 90 minutes after dismissal most days. I also work most Sundays for most of the day. I teach kindergarten and I have taught for several years. |
Anonymous
Good grief...what are you doing? And do you have a family? |
Anonymous
Yes, I have a family. That is why I don't work from 5-8, as I spend that time with my children. The work entails: writing curriculum for all subject areas, responding to emails from colleagues and families, writing weekly newsletters, sending home weekly progress updates, updating our class blog, researching books and reserving them at the library, creating various materials for students to use, analyzing assessments to inform my instruction, creating individualized materials for students in order to differentiate, planning guiding reading groups and math small groups - six groups for each subject area, creating new components of dramatic play, reading various texts and publications from the education world to inform my practice...I could go on, but hopefully this begins to give you an idea. |
Anonymous
| No. I am 28 and have been teaching 5 years. Finally in a good school I love. But I wouldn't recommend anyone go into it now |
Anonymous
| No!! If you enjoy teaching think of other ways to use those skills that keep you out of public schools. Become an academic therapist, speech therapist or OT, some type of coach. |
Anonymous
| No. Absolutely not. |
Anonymous
| Yes I would, but I teach in a private progressive school. I would never go back to public even though the pay is better. |