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[quote=Anonymous]I agree with all the PPs who say that your primary motivation should be a desire to teach, not to have the summers off.

If this is something you want to do, you should also realize that age group/subject matter will require different levels/kinds of energy.

My mother had been a college instructor, then took time off for kids and went back to be a high school teacher when I was in middle school.  She was a double major in Math & English in college, and had a Masters in English.  She needed to go back to school for Education classes, and she could have chosen to teach English or Math (would not have made any difference for requirements).  She chose English because of her passion for the subject but she recognizes that has meant literally hundreds of thousands of extra hours of work - grading English tests, essays, etc is just not the same as math.  "Freshening" the course each year is just not the same task (think: in English you have different books/texts all the time, but algebra is algebra is algebra.)

She is an excellent teacher and the world is a better place for her being in the classroom teaching her passion.  But I would say she averages a 60 hour week during the school year.  She NEEDS the summer to recuperate. [/quote]

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