Education is a career that thousands are choosing to pursue in life. While most college have an education program, most of them cater towards early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescent young adult, while people are left wondering about how to become a college professor. This paper outlines the opportunities that come along with a degree in postsecondary teaching for college freshmen and their parents. Postsecondary teaching is a rewarding profession for college freshmen because of the responsibilities, the benefits of educational growth, and the salary benefits.
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Postsecondary teaching is not talked a lot about in colleges, which leaves college freshmen and their parents wondering about this as a future profession. Understanding what postsecondary teaching is can be a useful tool especially when freshmen are deciding what they should study. This section will include details about postsecondary teaching and the general responsibilities of the job.
What Freshmen Need to Know As a freshman, there are several questions regarding college in general and what career path should be chosen. Postsecondary teaching allows for a teaching career and/or technical education teaching or becoming a college/university faculty, and can also be used for graduate teaching assistant. As a postsecondary teacher, there will be a variety of academic subjects that will be taught to students who are past the high school (secondary) level. The classes are taken for self-improvement and/or working towards a degree and career.1 Postsecondary teachers are also in charge of keeping track of grades, papers, and have available office hours for any questions. The profession offers meetings to discuss ideas and concerns that may arise. While the degree offers several benefits, it also involved a self-satisfaction attitude. College students may lack emotional stability, and this can play an important role in being a college professor. Nearly 30% or more drop out of college because of emotional difficulties.5 Although postsecondary teachers …show more content…
It may be a concern that there will be high levels of stress, burn-out, and even getting remotely bored at repeatedly teaching the same material. The level of stress greatly varies and will depend on the class size, students, and if there are a lot of assignments, it would also mean more work for the postsecondary teacher. It’s known that there is a lot of burn out in education, and while that is true in some cases, it can depend on the other faculty, the location, the amount of work, and the environment. A simple solution to most of these issues is to communicate it to someone who has authority if it starts to be too much. If a postsecondary teacher becomes bored by teaching the same topic over and over again, there are ways that can make it different, such as: asking students different questions to see variety, adding or deleting information,