Teachers are incredibly resourceful at finding information and advice from fellow teachers. While reading blogs, scouting Pinterest, finding mentors, and buying lesson plans from other teachers, an educator can gather useful information to prepare herself for managing a classroom.…
Over a third of new teachers are career changers, meaning they started teaching as a second career. If you are interested in how to become a teacher, read on! There is a lot to learn about what questions to…
Tax return season is here! According to Business Insider, the average tax refund is $2,254. That amount covers the cost of becoming a certified teacher with American Board. Investing a tax refund can quickly change someone’s career path. The…
If you are eyeball deep in your first year of teaching, then chances are you have been feeling that first year learning curve. There are never too many resources to help you in the early years of your teaching…
For teachers, starting a teaching job in mid-year requires a unique kind of pre-planning. You're stepping in mid-year and you have completely different challenges to face than a teacher starting in August or September. Here are a few classroom…
It’s never too late to be what you might have been. — George Elliot
There is nothing more liberating than remembering how much power you have to change your life. We forget that sometimes, wrapped up in a fog of responsibilities and repairs and emergencies and meetings and planning and whatever-the-next-thing-is-today. We forget that, in spite of everything we have piled into our daily lives, change is possible.
Many of our candidates have come to us over the years, after working in other industries, and said some version of this:
We hear this from So. Many. People.
There are tens of thousands of people with experience, common sense and a calling to teach that are driven to reach out and find a way to work in education. We think it’s never to late to shift into a career as a teacher. (We are a bit biased, since we were created by the Department of Education to help people do just that.) Check out these three reasons it’s never too late to become a teacher.
Keeping students engaged can be a difficult task for any teacher, but it becomes especially hard to maintain engaging teaching strategies as school breaks approach or during holiday seasons. As a teacher, you may get a group of students…
One of the keys to helping students succeed is providing them with support and tools that help them gain confidence. For some students, essay writing is an assignment that can cause a lot of stress and deflate their excitement…
The school year began last month, but schools in Arizona still need more than 2,000 teachers, according to recent data. However, new rules were recently implemented to provide a solution by reopening alternative teacher certification programs. Such programs provide…
It can be difficult to know whether the career you picked is the right fit for you until you are actually doing it. Sometimes, the career that was right for you five or 10 years ago is no longer…
