Teaching
I have a rather awesome Biology teacher. She's genuinely, almost ridiculously passionate about her subject, and about science in general. She did quite well for herself at uni and was going to continue on to a PhD...so not the kind of person whom one would expect to be a teacher, given the "if you can't do it, teach it" attitude.
She openly told our class that she teaches because she genuinely likes it - she gets to talk about the subject she loves all day long, for a start, which has to be a plus in any career. Cue me telling her that more people need to talk like that - to which she said that she does give talks to people doing PGCEs.
Following on from other random stuff I and many, many other people came up with, it's not good enough just to be essentially preaching to the choir. We desperately need inspirational teachers - and to get more of them, teachers should speak to students from, say, Year 9 upwards about the benefits of becoming a teacher. I don't know if Year 12s are spoken to about careers in teaching, but since they have talks about everything from aerodynamics to fashion design to zoology, I'm sure that they do - or that they should do.
She openly told our class that she teaches because she genuinely likes it - she gets to talk about the subject she loves all day long, for a start, which has to be a plus in any career. Cue me telling her that more people need to talk like that - to which she said that she does give talks to people doing PGCEs.
Following on from other random stuff I and many, many other people came up with, it's not good enough just to be essentially preaching to the choir. We desperately need inspirational teachers - and to get more of them, teachers should speak to students from, say, Year 9 upwards about the benefits of becoming a teacher. I don't know if Year 12s are spoken to about careers in teaching, but since they have talks about everything from aerodynamics to fashion design to zoology, I'm sure that they do - or that they should do.
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