Question #1

Just like any other job being a teacher requires certain skills. As a secondary teacher one deals with many issues in the classroom from behavior issues, learning issues, and motivational issues. Secondary school teacher carry a great responsibility being that right after these years of school students go off into the real world. "Many successful people credit secondary school teachers with helping guide them into college, careers, and other endeavors"(Ferguson ).To be a secondary teacher one first and for-most must enjoy working with people and have patience. In schools there is a diversity of students all with different behaviors and issues. The only way to be able to deal with them would be with patience. As a teacher one must also be a great communicator to be able to communicate to the parents as well as the students about their strengths and weaknesses to become a better student and to succeed in school. Organization is also a much needed skill to be a good teacher. Organization is needed because without organization a teacher would not be able to properly guide students into the next level of education. Also keeping up with student's work progress is needed to help the students progress academically. "Successful teachers convey instructions and information in a manner their students can understand while modeling effective writing and speaking skills for their students" (School of Education). With being organized comes being efficient. A teacher must be efficient in order keep up with school curriculum and, with a timely manner, teach to the students what is required and do it well. Inspiration and ability to control students is also an important skill needed to be a teacher. As a teacher one must be able to inspire students to challenge and aim to succeed to make teaching a much easier, fun, and motivating process for both the student and the teacher. No one wants to be that boring and strict teacher that everyone hates. This goes along with being able to control the students. If a teacher becomes the one person that inspires the student it will be much easier to control a student as far as their behavior and their interest in their school work. Lastly, a teacher must know her material well to teach it well. Students do not hate nothing more than a teacher who does not know her material well. For those students that listen in class and do homework it becomes a drag to them going to class to a teacher who does not know their material well and cannot answer their questions. Overall, being a teacher requires a lot of skills but if this is the career for you it should come naturally.