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What are the Requirements to Become a Teacher?

As a teacher, you perform many different duties from planning lessons and grading tests to disciplining students and maintaining classroom order. However, your primary responsibility is to provide your students with the skills and understanding they need to master whatever subjects you teach. This is as true for kindergarten teachers as it is for instructors who lead adult education classes at community workshops. However, because each person learns material in a slightly different fashion, it is important that you design your lessons to appeal to the broadest audience possible. Occasionally, you may have to devote special time and attention to those students who have yet to fully grasp key concepts from a given lesson, whether you teach reading, arithmetic, or automotive engineering.

Requirements to Become a Teacher

Technically speaking, anyone can become a freelance teacher, giving paid lessons without formal training. However, to work in most schools across the country, you typically have to meet a range of requirements in order to become a professional teacher.
  • In public schools, K-12, a teacher's certificate plus formal training in pedagogy, education, school administration, or curriculum development is mandatory. In some districts, a master's degree is required.
  • In private schools, K-12, you can sometimes get by without a teacher's certificate and rely on a bachelor's degree only. However, many schools prefer advanced degrees.
  • At the university level, a master's degree is usually the bare minimum, although most tenured positions require a doctorate degree.
  • At the vocational, technical, or community college level, a master's degree or higher is usually preferred, unless you have extensive professional experience in your particular specialty.
Because teaching is a dynamic and forever changing process, many of the best educators frequently go back to school for training in newer methodologies and techniques. If teaching is a career that you are serious about, you should consider the benefits of continuing education even after you secure your entry-level certifications.

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