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Earn bachelor's degree in elementary education, or can also attend a teacher education program

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You usually take an internship your 3rd or 4th year of school, it helps with real-life experience and teaching in a classroom

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Most states have different types of exams, but elementary teachers usually take the NES exam or Elementary Education Praxis exams

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$60,660 a year for elementary, 57,860 for kindergarten

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Most states work 10 months w/ 2 months off for summer

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Employment is suspected to grow 4% from 2019-2029,and the number of students is expected to increase over the next decade

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Better opportunities in urban and rural areas then suburban school districts

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Medical, vision, and dental coverage are eligible
Dental premiums are fully paid by your employer
Eligible employees are provided basic term life & long term disability insurance

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Eligible employees are provided basic term life & long term disability insurance

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Deferred compensation program lets employees save a portion of their salary and invest it in many different investment options

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Where did you go to college and what did you major in?

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Where did you go to college and what did you major in?

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Went to WSU for elementary education, got masters degree in elementary math.

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Her school designs it for kids interacting, helps picks students back up if they fail
Have good level of group work

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What kinds of college classes do you take?

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What kinds of college classes do you take?

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She took general ed classes like Biology, math, writing, and was done with those by sophomore year and declared major then applied for the teaching program and then took classes like psych child development, etc and went onto internships

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Would you ever teach at a charter/private school or stay in public? Why?

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Would you ever teach at a charter/private school or stay in public? Why?

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Stay in public, likes challenge, gets kids of all ranges academic, social etc.- keeps job interesting, does something diff every year because of that, big believer in public education

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Building relationships w/ kids, harder online though, has good schedule since she has kids knows what's happening so shell know what they'll learn

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Grading (writing is fine though) and writing reports/ report cards, would rather have a conference w/ parents

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Did you ever have to take a 2nd job during the summer? 

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Did you ever have to take a 2nd job during the summer? 

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No, but knows people who did though, got masters 2nd year of teaching so she didn't have to

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Did you always want to become a teacher? If not, why did you become one?

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Did you always want to become a teacher? If not, why did you become one?

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Wanted to be a nurse originally, freshman year thought no classes were interesting, took human development for psych credit, took more human development courses, originally wanted high school ELA, counselor suggested elementary