A teaching career is as challenging as it is rewarding, and it starts with having a passion for the field. If you feel the call of Teaching, an education degree is the next step to getting into the classroom. Do you have what it takes to succeed in a teaching career?"An ideal student to pursue an education degree is someone who likes kids, and who wants to make a difference," says Margarent M. Davis, Ed.D, dean of City University's Albright School of Education. "Personality traits are an openness to a variety of people and points of view, strong human relations skills, ability to work as a member of a team, a person who sees the future in everything he or she does." If that description suits you, you're poised to reap all the benefits that a teaching education can afford -- and that doesn't just mean getting the summers off. Many of the benefits of teaching are the subtleties and nuances of your day-to-day successes. "We all know that people aren't going to get rich teaching, but you get the satisfaction that comes when you see the light go on in a student's eye or when you get a message 15 years after you've had a student and that student says, 'You may not remember me, but I want you to know your class was important to me,'" explains Davis. Furthermore, a teaching education will equip you with plenty of knowledge and experience that can be applied in other professional areas. "A lot of teachers go on to do other things," says Davis. "They become librarians, they go into the high tech field, they take their teaching skills into every arena of life." However, you don't need to leave the world of education to continue to develop, advance, and continuously re-shape your teaching career. "I am evidence of the mobility and growth teaching can afford," says Davis. "I have taught in three states, at the high school and college levels, I've been an administrator, and in higher education I have been a director and a dean. What I tell students is that life is very long and it admits many visions and revisions. Many people become counselors both in schools and in community organizations, and there are lots of leadership opportunities. Almost every kind of employment in the 21st century requires creativity and the ability to work in teams, and teachers exercise that capacity every day." Explore the possibilities of teaching careers today!
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