What is a Native English Teacher?

A teacher isn't just someone you realize you look up to later in life. A teacher is someone who teaches important life lessons while making sure to include academic lessons along the way.

Typically, a teacher only works during school hours, which means they get to beat rush hour traffic. Although, it's not uncommon for teachers to spend their nights and weekends preparing lessons and grading papers. An added bonus of being a teacher is getting to enjoy summer vacation.

Any teacher that has a student teacher is relieved they have them. As a student teacher, you get to go through school again, but this time you get to help others with the assignment rather than actually complete the assignment yourself.

Most student teachers are learning to become teachers themselves and generally shadow a classroom in an elementary or secondary school. But don't limit yourself. While much more rare, there are student teachers that work at universities or colleges. So it comes down to whether you'd rather assist dependent or independent students.

Generally, your student teaching experience will only last a semester or two. So make sure you're writing down good notes! At the end of being a student teacher, you'll have the opportunity to take over the class on your own. From preparing the lesson to correcting homework, you'll be doing it all by yourself in no time.

English instructors are responsible for teaching English literature, comprehension, writing skills, reading, and critical thinking. Some responsibilities include creating lesson plans for students, grading student essays and tests, ensuring orderliness in class, encouraging students to read out in class, write progress reports for students, create tests, assign essays and homework, and assign books for students to read. They are expected to have excellent speaking and writing skills and passion and knowledge about great works of literature.

They should also have excellent language skills and grammar as well as interpersonal and organizational skills. They also need to be certified by the state. They earn $51,398 per year, which breaks down to $24.71 per hour. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the career is projected to grow by 11% to create 155,000 new job opportunities between 2018 and 2028.