High School Teacher Reviews - Page 27

Be patient and collaborate and take risks.

When you start out find a position in a famous lab with a named principle investigator(s). You need to have access to a lab that is both well funded and where something is happening. Commonly that will lend itself to your getting your name on a few more important research papers. Finally, that will lay the ground work for "opening doors", where your principle investigator will provide assistance to getting you that next post-doctoral position, or perhaps an appointment to a tenure track job in academia, or a good paying job in the private sector.

Learn first before offering unwanted advice. It takes at least 3 years to understand your school culture and district politics.

If you actually posess the skills to be worthy of going into teaching, go use them somewhere else and get paid what you are truly worth. Education does not value skills set that produce true results. They want teachers to do assembly line work----produce students capabale of passing tests that make their data look good. Forget having a job more than 196 days at a time, forget a career path, forget promotions, forget producing students with marketable skills sets in a 1st world nation, forget performance pay, forget bonuses for excellence, forget pay raises, forget COLA's, forget salay increases, forget compensation for required industry certifications, forget reimbursment for mandated continuing education, forget salary supplements, forget matching 401K funds, , forget stock options, forget retirement, forget respect, in fact forget your own diginity. Forget EVERYTHING you EVER thought about education. The system wants you dead, buried, and the earth salted where you lay broken.

No matter the subject you decide to teach, there are approaches being explored 'out there' that push the envelope of conventional practice. Seek out those who are the best and learn from them. These approaches inspire students to be their best, will enable you to be significant in others' lives. This will give you a lot of personal satisfaction with your precious time on this planet being well spent.