Working with kids, being passionate about a subject, making a difference: what makes people switch careers to teaching?
theconversation.com
Research shows plenty of people think about becoming teachers. We also know mid-career teachers’ expectations don’t match reality once they make it to the classroom.

The linked article explores some of the reasons people switch careers and become teachers. Are you a late career changer? What made you decide to get into teaching? Are you enjoying it? Do you regret it? How do you think we can attract more professionals from industry to become teachers and share their experience?

  • cammoblammo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I was a minister of religion for seventeen years and absolutely loved working with kids. I volunteered in a couple of programs at my kid’s school, and their teacher told me I was in the wrong job. She had a good point—the parts of the job I most enjoyed either involved kids or teaching groups of people.

    When it came time to change careers, teaching was the obvious choice. My child’s former teacher (who was now a principal) gave me a job as an SSO while I did my degree.

    As a postscript, someone associated with one of the programs I’d volunteered in rang me when a teaching role opened up and I was made permanent within a year.