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Good STEM teachers need their doctorates. They also need experience with their field.. So teaching is often a secondary obligation on top of research. If you grab your PhD and try to get a school to fund specific research (and if they accept), you're probably going to become the head of your own lab as well have obligations to teach or sub in for a few lectures.

@metaghost4: people have said that to me about everything but I've never had a hard time getting into something.
I'll just see how it goes.

No, because I'm kinda bad to explain something.

i seriously considered it at one point. the option's still open. i still visit some elementary/middle/high school and uni teachers from time to time. catching up and seeing people grow is wonderful. it's nice to remain connected to those who helped shape our minds. they were integral in our development. the great ones were great. they were the memorable ones. my sincerest gratitude.

@metaghost4: We rent the house. We live in Douglas County, Colorado, which is the 9th richest county in the United States. It's just an average house.
We're just smart enough to save money I guess.

So it is a nice community and the teachers who work here are probably better, nicer, and more satisfied then a teacher in the inner city would be. I'm definitely not going to teach in the inner city.

@metaghost4: I'm one of the few who doesn't get annoyed or angered easily, as I've probably said before, and I don't just automatically hate kids for no reason like everyone else seems to. Well, I don't hate teenagers, which is why I'd teach high school.

The pay is average. My family of 4 people and my brother at college only makes 30k a year and we survive in a suburban house...it seems like teachers around here get paid about 50k/year.

I did this thing called Link Crew, where upperclassmen help guide and introduce the freshman to Ponderosa. I think it's an amazing idea. They can ask whatever questions, we're high schoolers too so we're less intimidating and more updated than teachers or adults. And yeah, I really like helping them out, and I like helping people with homework and yearbook stuff when I know what I'm doing.

[quote=metaghost4]@Plenair: & @fradddd & @Irony & @MushroomQueen & @Dorks & @Yumtoast & @WeBelieve I don't understand why you guys want to be teachers. All basil does is complain how terrible kids are. Not to mention the low pay and the lack of respect you'll get daily.[/quote]

Well for me personally, I want to help and watch my students grow to become intellectual, hard working, and compassionate people of the future. The money is just a "extra side-effect" to me. Knowing that my students succeed in the future is worth more than any mansion or expensive car.

not when you have students saying poop around your back about you.'
i know because i hear it all the tim

[quote=Yumtoast]Wall of text because I'm seriously considering teaching as my profession.

When I was in secondary school, the thought of becoming a teacher never occurred to me. Not even once did I think about it seriously until I edged my way into upper-division status in college. I started to give teaching some serious thought and now I'm making room in my schedule to get my teaching credentials along with finishing my math minor.

There are 3 plans I currently have, which all involve teaching:
-Settle with a BS, immediately go to teaching math and/or CS at a high school.
-Settle with a BS, find a good-paying job to work at for a decade or so, then go to teaching.
-Go to graduate school, pick up a MS (or maybe a PhD) and teach at either a high school or university.

I realized somewhere during my first year in college that the only reason why people hate math is because their teachers were terrible. I didn't really comprehend that because from my first year of high school all the way to my third semester in college, all my math teachers were top-notch and passionate about what they did. I really got lucky and during those years, my math grades rocketed up from low Bs to high As and became my best subject, which is why I decided to go for a math minor. Honestly, if it wasn't for my incredible algebra 2 teacher (and of course other teachers), I would never have ended up majoring in the STEM fields. But then I had a string of rather poor math professors, which is around the time I fully understood why high school students were so negative towards math. A few things happened and now I have a number of browser bookmarks on teaching with an actual goal. I don't even care about the terrible salary, I just want teaching to eventually be my career.

I've recently had dreams about this too; I'm actually excited about graduating for the first time in a long time. It's not everyday you dream about petitioning for a discrete math class in your school district because you want more students to walk on the path of CS/SE/CE/AM.[/quote]
I'd really like to encourage you to teach kids in some capacity. I say this coming from two different angles: First, I've worked with children in the past, and it's extremely rewarding to frame an abstract concept in terms that can be easily understood. Second, I had the [i]opposite[/i] experience in my own schooling, and it took me about 10 years to realize that I owed my aversion to math to a string of detached teachers. I did quite well with it in grade school, was placed into the more advanced sections, and generally found it to be rather easy until I came up against a particularly horrible algebra teacher. My confidence in my math ability was ruined by that guy, and I strove to complete only the minimum course requirements in high school and college. If you decide to teach at the secondary level, you could potentially save students from that kind of situation (which ultimately may affect the course of their lives).

[quote=metaghost4]I don't understand why you guys want to be teachers. All basil does is complain how terrible kids are. Not to mention the low pay and the lack of respect you'll get daily.[/quote]
Most of my high school education took place in an upper-middle class suburbia where most students behaved themselves. Of course just like every other profession, no one wants to work in a ghetto where all you get is BS all day long.

Low pay has never been a huge issue for me either. I grew up in the lower-middle class, had 2 full-time jobs at one point, and almost lost my home in the housing bubble burst. I can live comfortably with a 50-60k salary, even while raising a family and paying back loans.

@metaghost4: I enjoy teaching and helping someone understand material. I voluntarily help others I see struggle if I understand it so I think the job would be good for me, it's just that I don't find it realistic because of the competition and low pay

I want to teach at a private school or community college or where there isn't immaturity kids I have to baby sit. I would teach math or computer science but I'm not good at either so idk what I'd teach.
I'm not fond of the university system because professors' main focus isn't teaching and its overpriced.

I've actually been contemplating it.
But the thing is, if I were to teach I'd want to teach chemistry. And I refuse to teach high school.
And to teach at a university you need to get your PhD so... That will never get to happen.

The more and more awful professors I have at this university the more and more I want to teach because I know it isn't supposed to be this bad.

Yes Definitely. I Love working with students, and talking to parents about how great their child is. I am minoring in Education Studies! I honestly don't see myself doing anything else but becoming a teacher.

sure why not but i'd probably kill someone due to frustration if i actually taught students eheheheh

Wall of text because I'm seriously considering teaching as my profession.

When I was in secondary school, the thought of becoming a teacher never occurred to me. Not even once did I think about it seriously until I edged my way into upper-division status in college. I started to give teaching some serious thought and now I'm making room in my schedule to get my teaching credentials along with finishing my math minor.

There are 3 plans I currently have, which all involve teaching:
-Settle with a BS, immediately go to teaching math and/or CS at a high school.
-Settle with a BS, find a good-paying job to work at for a decade or so, then go to teaching.
-Go to graduate school, pick up a MS (or maybe a PhD) and teach at either a high school or university.

I realized somewhere during my first year in college that the only reason why people hate math is because their teachers were terrible. I didn't really comprehend that because from my first year of high school all the way to my third semester in college, all my math teachers were top-notch and passionate about what they did. I really got lucky and during those years, my math grades rocketed up from low Bs to high As and became my best subject, which is why I decided to go for a math minor. Honestly, if it wasn't for my incredible algebra 2 teacher (and of course other teachers), I would never have ended up majoring in the STEM fields. But then I had a string of rather poor math professors, which is around the time I fully understood why high school students were so negative towards math. A few things happened and now I have a number of browser bookmarks on teaching with an actual goal. I don't even care about the terrible salary, I just want teaching to eventually be my career.

I've recently had dreams about this too; I'm actually excited about graduating for the first time in a long time. It's not everyday you dream about petitioning for a discrete math class in your school district because you want more students to walk on the path of CS/SE/CE/AM.

I used to want to be a K-5 schoolteacher, still do but probably won't.
If there was an opportunity where I could explore it I'd take it.

I'm going to be an elementary school teacher because practically 3 months of vacation and I can handle chillens.

I honestly would want to be a teacher for a profession but it's not really a stable job or an easy one to find.

After being an engineer, I hope to "retire" into a teacher, mostly teach Physics. It's a great subject and a lot of people struggle due to bad teachers. I believe I'd be a great teacher and be able to help students who are learning physics for the first time.

Seems fun to be a teacher but, more than not, I'd rather be a counselor/tutor and help kids figure out what to do with their lives.

@lazylazylazy are you serious? lol idk anyone who wants to be a teacher and 95% of the teachers at my school it wasn't their first option.

Maybe in universities but not in HS can't deal with annoying brats.

[quote=CatThinkof1]of all people why her[/quote]

Dude, Nicki Minaj is like the best.

Acceptable substitutes are Mindy Kaling, Lucy Liu, and Jennifer Aniston, and Sarah Silverman.

Yeah but I wont make enough money.

I want to be a Physician Assistant and that is what I'm working towards now... then later in life I really would love to teach future PAs at a medical school.

Teaching itself could be fun, but I doubt I'd fare well with classroom management. Kids coming in that are entirely uninterested, disrespectful, or bringing the turmoil of their home lives with them to school... I'll leave that to more capable folks.

I've actually started considering teaching as my career starting last quarter. I'd never really thought about it before, but being in the classes I'm in this year, and the stuff I've done, I've learned that I really enjoy helping people (as long as I know what I'm doing), and I'm O.K. at faking it til I make it.

People (in real life) always like me, I honestly can't think of someone who doesn't like me, and I don't hate people, and I don't get annoyed or angered easily.

So yes, high school teaching is what I'm currently thinking about as a future career.

I could care less about the money, I don't live large anyway.

Highschool teacher: nah not really
/Post Highschool higher education institution teacher (university): sure why not

Yes I do. Behind being a professional soccer player and being Nicki Minaj's husband, being a high school math teacher is my third dream. I love math, I love teaching, I'm really great at teaching. Yup. The money will be piss-poor but my soon-to-be girlfriend is rich so no big deal.

hell no. I prefer giving bs reasons to why i couldn't get my work done, not listen to them.

Nah, I can't explain things at all so I'd be a pretty cruddy teacher. Plus, I don't really like presentations.