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Why do people not want to be teachers anymore?
The drop in teacher training enrollment suggests that issues plaguing the profession — from low pay to dwindling funding — has discouraged potential educators, exacerbating the nationwide teacher shortage. Teachers get paid nearly 21\% less on average than other professions that require a college degree.
What’s the worst part of being a teacher?
Worst: Being with students during their disrespectful/apathetic/lazy moments. Just as many teachers say that as smartphones invade their classrooms, zapping attention and interest from lesson plans, it’s easy to grow demoralized about the time and effort devoted to preparing lesson plans and grading assignments.
What are some concerns about becoming a teacher?
30\% of you agreed that one of the biggest concerns with being a teacher was time/time management….The other major concerns that many of you agreed on included:
- Not being able to help every child reach his/her potential;
- Low parent involvement / problem parents; and.
- Too much testing / focus on testing.
What worries most about becoming an educator?
Perhaps the most common fear in all professions, not just teaching, is that of inadequacy. Whether you’re a professional athlete or career politician, everyone has his or her own moments of doubt. As with the fear of not being prepared, you need only look back at how much you’ve already accomplished.
Why do so many teachers have no knowledge of the subject?
Also, many of these teachers have degrees in education, not history, physics, or literature. They have no knowledge of the subject they are teaching, but they’re teaching it anyway because they got a piece of paper from a college of education.
Should parents be telling teachers how to do their jobs?
Parents such as these should not be telling teachers how to do their jobs. They drive good teachers out of the profession. Get them and their stupid kids out of the schools. After two years of teaching I quit and went into marketing.
Are teachers and administrators highly educated?
Many teachers and administrators are not highly educated; instead, they learned egalitarian ideology at colleges of education. Studying at these colleges is like taking a course in Scientific Communism at Moscow State University in 1976.