Elementary School Teacher

By: Jessica Myer

Duties and Responsibilities

• Teachers spend an average of 49.3 hours per week, including 11.2 hours per week on non-compensated duties.

• They must establish rules and discipline

• They also need to prepare materials and classrooms for class activities.

• And plan and conduct activities

• And assign and grade class work and homework

Job Outlook

• The projected employment for 2018 is 3,944,900.

• This career is growing at a rate of 18% from 2008-2018.

• The competition for a position in teaching is solely based on the location

Work Environment

• Teachers work an average of 49.3(paid) hours a week, plus 11.2 hours (unpaid)

• Teachers also get no overtime pay, which is looked at as a disadvantage.

• The work schedule for a teacher is a five day week, with weekends and holidays off.

• A teachers work is both indoor and outdoor work it is also both moving and stationary.

Education/training

• To become a teacher you must obtain something along the lines of a Bachelor of Science in Education or a Teaching license.

• The higher the training or accreditation you have the better chance you will have in the career you choose.

• The teaching career doesn’t really have a career ladder, you apply for the position that you want to have.

ADVANTAGES DISADVANTAGES

•Funding for teaching supplies

•Teaching large classrooms

•Health benefits •Low salary related to work

•No teaching on weekends, holidays, and summers

•Work, on average, 50 hours a week

•Knowing that your making a difference

•Small school budgets

•Receive private scholarships and federal funding for teaching programs

• No overtime pay

Compensation

• There are no specifically listed fringe benefits, but some of them would be:

1. Health care

2. Get a variety of students and you also get new students every year

3. You are given many chances to attend seminars and workshops

Salary

• The average salary in Virginia is:

• Bachelor of science=$40,986

• Masters=$46,109

• PhD=$51,233

Those are the average salaries depending on education all throughout Virginia.

College/Training Expenses and Entrance Requirements

• For college you would need to obtain a bachelors degree in the field of teaching or a certification in education or the subject matter is the basic educational requirements for a teacher.

• It is required to get in to college to have had 4 course units of math, 4 units of English, 2 units of languages other than English, and 3 courses of science including 1unit of U.S. history.

College/Training Expenses and Entrance Requirements (continued)• In-state tuition for college averages

$26,276 for a private college and $7,020 for a four year public college.

• Out of state tuition average around $23,038 and up, it all depends on the state and the financial aid they are willing to give you.

References

• www.careerplanner.com

• education.stateuniversity.com

• www.bls.gov

• http://gradschool.about.com/od/education/f/adcteacher.htm