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| Do you love teaching? If you had it to do all over again, would you? Could you? Share your thoughts in a Love Teaching essay and send it to Linda Starr at Education World and we'll publish it here.  What is teaching like today? Who should do it? And who shouldn't? This Education World series features essays on teaching by teachers. They answer the question, "If you had it to do all over again, would you still become a teacher?"
The editors at Education World regularly get e-mails from college students trying to decide what to do with their lives, and from men and women already established in non-teaching careers who are considering making a change. They all ask us the same question: "Should I become a teacher?" Most think they want to teach; they love kids; or they have kids and want to coordinate the family's schedules; or they remember a teacher who changed their lives; or they want to change lives; or they hate corporate life; or…. Most also have reservations about pursuing a teaching career, however. They wonder if they can control a classroom; communicate with parents; spend all day every day with kids; deal with a lack of social prestige; raise a family on a teacher's salary…. Their reasons for considering teaching -- and for doubting that choice -- are at once selfish and altruistic; shortsighted and informed; realistic and naïve. Essentially, however, all our correspondents want to know whether they will find success and satisfaction in the classroom; whether the plusses of teaching outweigh the minuses. No one can answer that question for a particular individual, of course, but we thought that our readers who are teachers might be able to give their potential colleagues some insight into the realities of the profession today. We started by asking members of the Education World Teacher Team this question: If you had it to do all over again, would you still become a teacher? Their answers were so honest and insightful -- and inspiring -- that what was to be a single Teacher Team article has become a series of essays on the joys and struggles of today's teachers. We think -- whether you're a teacher or a prospective teacher; a supporter or a critic of education today -- you'll be surprised and encouraged by what these teachers have to say. And, as you read these essays, we also hope you'll be inspired to write one of your own! LOVE TEACHING ESSAYS Jacquie Ponsford Glenda Puett Martha Elouise Paine Annette Holliday Cornish Kevin Jarrett Bernie Poole Robin Smith Peter Bissinger Linda Villadoniga Cossondra George Robert Sharp Stewart Pruslin Lisa Westrick Nancy Flanagan Kathleen Cave Teresa Bell Kindred Karen Natoli Mr. Kelly Sisk Christina Paxon Laurie Wasserman Sarah Cooper Stan Friedland Dorothy Small Fernando Mesquita Susan Smith Judith Donahoe Smith Lois Johnson Predrag Pale Nick Landy Cassie Hunter Amber Castleberry Graziella Guiguizian T. McSweeney Felicia Arnold Article by Linda Starr
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