Make a career plan and careful study of the existing needs in the job market for where you want to work. It will be easiest if you earn your degree and teaching credential in the same State you where you will teach.

Teaching will require a credential…so the sooner you get that out of the way the better…plenty of time to take more courses. Find out if there are other tests to complete AFTER you graduate in order to get fully credentialed. Also find out if there are requirements for in-service training or additional course work to keep your credential current. This may give you insights to how to organize your additional course work to your advantage relative to increasing your pay and diversity of classes you can teach.

Find out the subject areas in demand (e.g. many districts are short of ESL, English, math, science, technology teachers; bilingual teaching may bring opportunities for premium pay scales). Get savvy and consider present and future demands. In some districts, vocational areas are in high demand.

Get salary information from the Human resources depts of the different school districts…no one every got into teaching to get rich…but pay scales vary from district to district, city to city, state to state. No need to start out paying all kinds of tuition to get your degree and credential and then start off in the hole by picking a low paying district.

Get benefits and retirement info as well….you’re in this for the long haul, right? So think long term and make good decisions for yourself.

Consider grooming yourself for college level teaching or for moving into counseling or administrative positions…and check out the salary/benefit packages for those. When you start off teaching, you might be single and carefree…later, getting married expands the responsibilities and financial needs…and these other avenues of income or advancement may or may not exist…depends on how you prepared yourself in education, training, and experience.

My teaching career was very rewarding…and careful planning allowed me to retire early and move into other exciting and personally rewarding activities.

Good luck on your future….best wishes. Hope this helped you.

The requirements vary from state to state. In my state, you would need to get an education degree, and it would be wise of you to develop proficiency in a number of subject areas to make yourself more marketable, but at the very least you should have one specialty in which you are extremely proficient, which would mean studying hard and taking a lot of classes in the subject that you want to teach.

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