>>34647069
an actual question on here and no-one engages

hard to know because everybody differs in how much they'll tolerate the job, take some courses in education if you have the financial capacity to do so, see how your personality interacts with it. can you shadow a class, ask some teachers and see what they say?

I’m not sure you could even find an assistant teaching job that would see you working 20hrs a week.
Maybe you could give substituting a try. You could be a substitute teacher or a paraprofessional.

>>34647069
i'm someone who's currently in the process of becoming a teacher and i have mixed thoughts. there's a lot about the job i do enjoy: middle school is fun because you can kind of teach whatever you want, the curriculum at least in my state is as rigid. so you have flexibility for a lot of fun lessons that almost "gamify" class and make your students like you. high school is cool because the kids are old enough to the point where they can have deeper conversations, although for my state the curriculum at that age is so rigid that you often have to cram lessons in and rush them.

and that's some of the downsides. while i do enjoy teaching, i have to say in my limited experience that this system of education is so broken. i teach history, and we distort that subject so much--we treat it as something that's static when it's very much alive. there was one time where i had this really bright, really mature class of 11th graders who took college courses, and i wanted them to read poems from ww1. they would read poems from the start of the war to the end and see the shifts in detail (start being bright and nationalist, the end being really brutal and cynical); the point was supposed to be how the great war shifted people's minds on war. what i thought was going to be a deep lesson was shot down since my the woman whose class i was teaching said "this isn't a literature class, the only thing they should know from ww1 is the weapons that were used." just shit like that, i must say that a lot of teachers are lazy.

i still enjoy it a lot when i have full reign over the classroom though, just some rigamarole you have to wade through. kids are going to push you a lot, especially in middle school, but know it's about how you react. just think "am i really going to let a child control my mood right now?" and by then you should already know the answer.

>>34648751
also teach your students how to read. i'm being serious, if you take away anything from those education classes just teach them how to read. even if you teach math and science, teach them how to read. most full--grown adults don't know how to read anymore, ever since covid people have grown weaker and dumber, try to fight back from that in your own small way.

you had a prior career not related to teaching so that's good. i've found that people who've been teachers their whole life are more likely to burn out, those who have had other careers enjoy the job and are liked by their students. just my observation. give it a try and see how'd you like it.

>>34647069
>Is it worth being a teacher?
it used to be agood jb with a lot of free time, now it's just humiliation ritual, kids will film you and put in the onternet to shame u, use AI to make deepfakes etc etc, I personally would avoid it

>>34647069
being a teacher is one of those jobs that you shouldnt get for the pay. you shouldnt be a teacher if you are not passionate about educating your community and potentially dealing with troubled youth. you will be doing kids a disservice

>>34647069
In my opinion no, but that's only cause I have zero patience and also I know I'm the type to fold if a female student wants to fuck me so I'm not even gonna go down that rabbithole

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>>34649340

Thanks for the answers. I'm also a History graduate, and I've always loved the subject and teaching it to others. But the state of education where I live has become pretty bad.

Students can get away with almost anything, and teachers often aren't allowed to properly discipline them. On top of that, there are coworkers and school administrators who may go after other teachers simply because they have different views.

I know teachers who are genuinely passionate about what they do, but they're constantly burned out. Unfortunately, many of them say that the negative aspects of the job are so exhausting that they end up overshadowing the good parts.

do you actually think teachers only work the school hours? kek
at least research about a job before considering it