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Majors / Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas, Other |
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Anonymous |
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December 15, 2006 |
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Early Childhood Education and Teaching:
I would never recommend that anyone go into early childhood or primary teaching. As with all teachers, the pay is notoriously low for the education and work expected. Within a school district, most percs go to high school teachers. They have fewer classes to prep for and teach, more planning time, and 5 minutes (or more) between each class.
Primary teachers, on the other hand, may be required to be alone with their students 95% of every day. There are no restroom breaks, and you can't leave the little ones alone. Primary teachers are expected to teach every subject in a lot of schools. That means prepping for 6-8 blocks each day. Many schools have no budget to provide all the materials needed to make this happen, so supplies have to come out of the teacher's pocket if they're going to come at all.
Children are not taught to behave prior to coming to school. Most parents today just aren't taking the time to teach their children how to behave, and too many are teaching their children that they are the center of the universe and that everything should revolve around them personally. Many children don't know how to be quiet and listen, talk at appropriate times, respect authority, or even how to stay in their seat during lessons. Instead of teaching, teachers spend many hours just working on discipline. Then there are children whose parents must never talk to them. These children come to school unable to comprehend what is being said or read to them.
Another problem for classroom teachers is the current trend toward mainstreaming. Special Needs students are put into regular classes, supposedly with support for teachers trained in special ed. However, my classes were full of special needs kids, and I had no help at all. I loved the children, but there was no way I could meet the needs of an entire classroom of children ranging in ability from a boy with the mental ability of a 3-year-old up to a boy reading at 4th grade level. There just wasn't enough of me to go around.
It's a real dog-eat-dog world in the public schools now as teachers are over-worked and underfunded. Everywhere I've been the older teachers grab everything there is to grab and leave the new teachers without materials, with the worst students, etc. It's no wonder many young teachers leave the field after teaching only a year or two. They can make far more money elsewhere without all the hassle.
Of course, teaching preschool outside the public school system is even worse. When I taught preschool, I only worked officially 6 hours a day. However, I also put in many, many hours on my own planning and preparing lessons. I probably worked 50 -- 60 hours per week but only got paid minimum wage for 30 hours a week. I was given no materials or toys and had to come up with ideas of my own. There was no support. Parents wanted to pay just as little as possible but expected big things. One week my assistant brought in a huge number of cardboard boxes for the children to play in and with, because of our lack of toys. The kids had a ball and used their imaginations to come up with all kinds of things to do with the boxes. The parents, however, griped. "We're paying big bucks for this and our children are only given boxes to play with." Big bucks here should be conceived as about what Mom and Dad would pay to go out for a nice dinner one night, but they didn't want to pay that much to have their children watched all week.
I would recommend that anyone who thinks they want to go into the teaching field because they love children, think again. Teaching should be about teaching children, but in reality it's pleasing the federal government and the state government, complying with whatever requirements the school administration makes, giving up your lunch time to make sure the children are fed, fielding other duties such as bus duty and recess duty, carrying out your own trash, cleaning your own room, dealing with irate parents, filling out piles of paperwork, buying your own supplies, combing the internet for new ideas, dealing with behaviorally disordered children... And on and on.
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