Chapter 1: Becoming a Teacher

Joyful

• Teaching students enriches lives of others, therefore you get the satisfaction of knowing you helped someone.
• As a teacher you are always learning, since real learning comes from experience not textbooks, the more you teach, the more you learn about teaching.
• When you teach you get to teach about subjects you are truly passionate about. You aren't doing something tedious, or meaningless, you are focusing on your passion and helping others understand it.

Not so joyful

• Regulations that restrict what you teach or even choose what you have to teach are something I do not look forward to. As a teacher i want to be able to focus my attention on teaching not on what the government wants.
• Teachers make all professions possible, and thus should be paid accordingly. Sadly this is not the case.
• Schools often loose funding due to poor scores on standardized testing, this creates pressure on teachers to teach kids how to pass tests rather then actually teaching them.