Career:

Teaching


1. Read the Job Description and Working Conditions. Answer the following questions:
What do people in this career do?

Teachers that teach from kindergarten to sixth grade teach the basics: numbers, language, science, and social studies. They teach a wide variety of subjects to one class.


What are the working conditions like for people in this career? (e.g. Where do they work? What are their
typical work hours? What challenges do they face?)

Teachers work between eight and ten hours a day. They work nine to ten months a year.

2. Click on Earnings and Sample Career Path. Investigate the following:
What salaries do people in this career earn?

A level two teacher makes 35 to 82 thousand dollars a year.


How do their job responsibilities change as they gain more experience and seniority (i.e. as they move
along the Sample Career Path)?

They go from a substitute teacher to a teacher to an assistant principal to a principal.


Click on Related Careers. Click on a career that interests you.
Career:

Principal
3. Read the Job Description and Working Conditions. Answer the following questions:
What do people in this career do?

Principals oversee the staff, administer the beget, and makes sure everything runs smoothly.

What are the working conditions like for people in this career? (e.g. Where do they work? What are their
typical work hours? What challenges do they face?)

Principals work year round and have about 4 to 5 weeks off a year. They generally work more than 40 hours a week.

4. Click on Earnings and Sample Career Path. Investigate the following:
What salaries do people in this career earn?

The earnings range from $59,000 to over $129,000 a year.

How do their job responsibilities change as they gain more experience and seniority (i.e. as they move
along the Sample Career Path)?

They start off as a big school teacher then they move to a senior high school teacher and then they move to a high school assistant principal and then they move to a high school principal.


SUMMARY – YOUR VIEWS
5. Now that you have learned a little about these two related careers, answer the following questions:
What is similar about the two careers?

A similarity is that in both jobs you work about 40-50 hours a week.

Which career do you think you would like more and why?

The career that I think I would like more is the teacher because you get to have more interactions with the students.