Teaching

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How does a teacher become a teacher? A teacher must go through many years of schooling, to become a teacher. The teacher must have a credential or a license to teach in America. The future teacher must attend college and take the courses need to become a teacher. Also in the career of teaching there is always a job for the pupil seeking the career choice of being a teacher. Teaching is also a very rewarding career, it may not be the highest paying job, but the satisfaction of knowing a child has learned how to read, write, spell, and math.
The definition of teaching is to instruct, to educate, to discipline, to impart knowledge of (Allee,381). That is what a teacher does every single day in his or hers classroom. There are many different types of teachers, there are preschool, elementary, secondary, and high school. The type of teaching career I would like to be is the elementary school teacher. I feel that the elementary teacher would be the most rewarding for me, because the youngest years of the students life is the building block of their education. The students learn the most during that time because of all the questions they ask and they want to know and how things work and why we need them. So there are more interested in learning more so then in their later years of education.
The requirements it takes to be an elementary school teacher. Most states require the aspiring teacher to have completed four years of accredited college work and have to achieved the bachelor’s degree to be certified to teach (Hopke,495). Most of the states require the elementary teachers to have majored in elementary education (Hopke,495). So basically if the future teacher has a bachelor’s degree him or her can be a teacher. There are specific classes you must take to become a teacher and the elementary class is just one of the many classes needed.

If some high school students who are interested in becoming a elementary school teach...