The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher

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Throughout the country, a growing number of college students, recent college graduates, and mid-career adults are thinking about becoming teachers. Teaching in middle and high schools combines a lifelong pursuit of learning, a long-held dream of joining a field that they respect, a chance to work with young people, and an opportunity to make a difference in society. The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher offers a step-by-step guide to preparation, certification, and employment as a teacher. It provides guidance about issues and choices facing prospective educators, including making the decision to teach, assessing the differences between middle schools and high schools, identifying an excellent teacher education program, understanding alternative pathways to certification, taking state-mandated teacher tests, succeeding as a student teacher, and finding a first job in the profession. A complete state-by-state listing of programs, including current U.S. News & World Report Top Fifty rankings and certification requirements rounds out this valuable guide.

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"A clear and up-to-date presentation of issues and questions confronting students who are considering or engaged in preparation for a career as a secondary teacher. It is an essential guide for academic advisors helping students make informed and reasoned decisions."-Donna Lynch Director of Academic Advising and Enrollment Services, Trinity College, D.C.
"Distilled from their fifty years of experience in teaching and teacher education and supported judiciously by current research, Robert Maloy and Irving Seidman have written a wise, concise, and practical guide for prospective teachers."-John Gabriel Assistant Professor, School of Education, DePaul University
"The professional jewels outlined by Maloy and Seidman are both profound and pragmatic for prospective teachers....This book is a veritable teaching yellow pages with a vast array and balance of paradigms and experiences that validate its authenticity."-Sean S. Warner Assistant Professor, Department of Curriculum & Instruction School of Health, Education & Human Development, Clemson University
"This is an engaging and informative career guide written with clarity, integrity, vitality, and an understanding of the real world of teaching and what it requires to become a good teacher."-Gerald J. Pine Professor of Education, Boston College
.,."[I]t is difficult to imagine a more thorough and insightful guide to the teaching profession than The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher....[It] is not just another career guide to job opportunities in education. With its thought-provoking discussion of the issues and choices facing educators today, this book is a must-read for those considering a secondary school teaching career and deserves a place in most academic and large public library career collections."-Education Book Review - MSU
...[I]t is difficult to imagine a more thorough and insightful guide to the teaching profession than The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher....[It] is not just another career guide to job opportunities in education. With its thought-provoking discussion of the issues and choices facing educators today, this book is a must-read for those considering a secondary school teaching career and deserves a place in most academic and large public library career collections.-Education Book Review - MSU
..."It is difficult to imagine a more thorough and insightful guide to the teaching profession than The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher....It is not just another career guide to job opportunities in education. With its thought-provoking discussion of the issues and choices facing educators today, this book is a must-read for those considering a secondary school teaching career and deserves a place in most academic and large public library career collections."-Education Book Review - MSU
..."[I]t is difficult to imagine a more thorough and insightful guide to the teaching profession than The Essential Career Guide to Becoming a Middle and High School Teacher....[It] is not just another career guide to job opportunities in education. With its thought-provoking discussion of the issues and choices facing educators today, this book is a must-read for those considering a secondary school teaching career and deserves a place in most academic and large public library career collections."-Education Book Review - MSU

Author Bio

ROBERT W. MALOY is Coordinator of History and Social Studies Teacher Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. IRVING SEIDMAN is Director of Teacher Education and Coordinator of English Teacher Education at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.