Sentences with phrase «choosing teaching as a career»

In Australia, Professor Watt said, their research showed people who choose teaching as a career are motivated by a complex interaction of factors.

One consequence of increasing opportunities for women in the workforce is the decreasing number of highly talented women who choose teaching as a career.

And I hope that their example inspires others at Harvard, across the Ivy League, and beyond to follow in their footsteps and to choose teaching as a career.»

Currently, the percentage of top - performing school leavers choosing teaching as a career in Australia is in decline.

A second and more important step is to identify policies capable of raising the status of the teaching profession and encouraging more able people to choose teaching as a career.

In 1981, the average American public - school teacher was older, had spent more time in college, was relatively less well paid, and was far less likely to choose teaching as a career if given a second chance than was the case in 1976.

That means fewer people are choosing teaching as a career, and many who do eventually flee to states bordering Oklahoma for much better pay.

Like any other profession there are those who should not have chosen teaching as a career.

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Beginning her career teaching on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, Juneau became the first Native American woman in history to win a statewide election when she was chosen as Montana's State Superintendent of Public Instruction.

It was one of our most surprising findings that so few who enter technology as a higher education choice or as a career subsequently choose to teach.

Over its 35 - year history, Breakthrough has worked with over 40,000 students and nearly 16,000 teaching fellows, 75 percent of whom chose education as a career.

Strengthening alternate certification programs also is on the agenda; the retention rate for those who choose teaching as a second career is about 30 percent.

Retired experts who have chosen to pursue teaching as a second career, current professionals interested in teaching part time, and even teachers with hobbies that correspond to the school's theme can be fonts of useful knowledge.

In addition, we know that young men face social pressures to conform to particular masculine ideals — because there are few male teachers teaching, it's not really perceived as something that's masculine to do and young men might be more likely to choose career paths like, say, becoming a personal trainer or entering business.

She claimed people change careers up to eight times in their working lives and wanted to people to choose teaching as one of those changes.

Undergraduate students changed personally and professionally as a result of the experience, learning about their teaching, increasing their confidence and competence, and confirming their choice of chosen career as a classroom teacher.

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

Many instructors choose to diversify in their career into areas such as fleet training, driver re-education and niche markets, so driving instruction isn't just about teaching learner drivers — it offers a wealth of career opportunities.

This is an excellent opportunity to enhance my teaching experience moreover, to be chosen as a participant would greatly enrich my professional career.