Motivations for Teaching

All About Teaching
This site, from an organization called Recruiting Teachers, includes current teachers telling why they teach and what they like and don’t like about teaching.

Recruiting New Teachers
This organization’s web site claims that "if you are interested in knowing more about what it takes to teach, you’ve come to the right place." You can also download a free report called How to Become a Teacher.

The Rewards of Teaching

A Sense of Calling
Check out highlights of the findings form this report, which was discussed in your textbook.

Sources of Useful Experience

Tips on Becoming a Teacher
This article, from the ADPRIMA web site, discusses some personal qualities of good teachers that you may want to consider as you reflect on how well-suited you would be to teaching. It also offers links to several other helpful sites.

How to Make a Good Impression During Your Student Teaching
Tips for Student Teaching
These pages from the I Love Teaching web site give you some valuable tips on how to behave in the classroom, whether you are a student teacher, substitute teachers, or observer.

Substitute Teaching Institute
This organization at Utah State University offers a free newsletter for substitute teachers and access to substitute teaching requirements of all fifty states.

Substitute Teaching: An Insider’s View
This tutorial is written by an experienced substitute teacher, who gives you lots of practical tips to use if you choose to gain teaching experience as a "sub."

Case Studies in the Motivation to Teach

Is Teaching the Right Place for Me?
This page from the I Love Teaching web site, reprints some discussion from a teacher chat on the Internet regarding how often teachers feel teaching is "just a job" or "a passion."