*PRESENT* *NEXT* The working conditions of a teacher vary

depending on where, what, and who you teach.

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However, in general, often the…
INTRODUCTION:
 Majority of work is done in the classroom at
Since I was very young I have always wanted to be an school
elementary school teacher. So, this is the career I have  Lots of work gets done on
decided to research and present to you guys today. computers/technologically
 Spending a lot of time standing and walking
around
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*NEXT* This leads us into the typical hours of work for a
SPECIFIC CAREER: teacher…
An elementary school teacher’s job includes a variety of  Those of a typical school day, but extra work is
different things. These tasks include things such as… done after and before school, during evenings,
*NEXT* during weekends, and even during the summer
 i.e. 8:00am – arrive at school
 Arriving earlier and leaving later than the typical
school day 8:30am-2:30pm – school day
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4:00pm – leave school
 Managing a classroom
*NEXT* + Some hours over the weekend
 Planning things such as lessons
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 Implementing procedures *NEXT*
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 Grading and evaluating students’ work
*NEXT* CAREER GOAL:
 Teaching students
*NEXT* The reason I want to be an elementary school
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teacher is because…
 Responding to emails
*NEXT*  My aunt is an elementary school teacher as well
 Meeting and working one-on-one with students, as my cousin (her daughter) and I’ve always
parents/guardians, etc. admired them
 Working with administrators (principals) *NEXT*
 I had an amazing experience in elementary
*NEXT* There are also a multitude of different skills and
school and often looked up to my teachers a lot,
characteristics required. These include…
so I would love to be a part of that experience for
 Good public speaking skills (relaxed) other children
 Directive (good leadership skills) *NEXT* I think I would make a good teacher because…
 Good clerical ability (proof-reading, detail-
orientated)  I am detail-orientated
*NEXT*  I have a good attitude with kids
 Understanding of children (patience) *NEXT*
 Confident talking with students  I enjoy being around and working with children
 Good attitude and willingness to help and get to  I am passionate about helping kids have a
know students positive experience in elementary school
*NEXT* So, obviously my career goal is to become an
elementary school teacher, but things don’t always work
out the way we want them to. Say, I get all of the
education I need but then I decide that teaching
elementary school isn’t for me. There are related jobs in
similar fields that I could get into with a bit more training
and/or education. Some jobs in the same realm of
teaching would include…
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 Kindergarten Teacher (requires an extra course)
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 Vice Principal/Principal (though this obviously
requires experience, ideally as a teacher first, and
possibly a master’s degree)
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 Secondary school teacher (would require the
most extra schooling because it requires a
different Bachelor since I chose to do a Bachelor
of Arts in Psychology, and Psychology is not
considered a teachable subject in high schools.
But I will get into that in a couple minutes)
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Now, with a Psychology: Bachelor of Arts Degree,
there are lots of other careers you can do. Many
employers love the research skills and critical
thinking that a psychology major has. With this
degree, you could go on to become a…
 Marriage and family counsellor (most requires
graduate school i.e. a master’s degree, some a
Ph.D.)
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 Or even other careers such as probation officers,
customer relations representatives, and office
managers (though these would obviously still
require further study)
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EDUCATION AND TRAINING NEEDED:
Now, this is where it gets a bit more complicated. From
the base perspective of looking at things, to be an
elementary school teacher, one would basically need…
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 Bachelor’s degree (minimum 90 unit degree)
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 Complete the PDP (Personal Development
Program)
 Recommended to have demonstrable
experience working with children or youth
or helping others learn (ex. Volunteering
in elementary schools)
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 BC Teaching Certificate
To get this education you can go to a multitude of
different universities in BC and outside of it, but just a
couple would include…
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 Kwantlen Polytechnic University (for the
Bachelor’s degree)
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 Simon Fraser University (for Bachelor’s and/or
PDP)
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 University of British Columbia (for Bachelor’s
and/or the Teacher Education Program)
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You can go pretty much anywhere to get your
Bachelor’s degree, but a smaller amount of
schools offer the Teacher Education
Program/PDP. SFU and UBC are two popular
ones with great programs. For my specific
project today I am only going to go through
Kwantlen’s Bachelor Degree program that I’ve
chosen and SFU’s PDP program which I have
chosen because these are the most likely schools
that I will go to because Kwantlen is a good
school and one of the least expensive, and SFU
offers a great PDP program that teachers I know
have attended.
*NEXT* The full cost of this education and training in
Canada is roughly $34,585. To breakdown this cost,
the…
 Bachelor’s Degree (of psychology at Kwantlen):
$22,340
 Tuition Levels (approx.): $4375/year
 $4375 x 4 years = $17500
 Books & Supplies (estimate): $1200/year
 $1200 x 4 years = $4800
 Application: $40
 PDP (at SFU): $12000 (approx.)
 BC Teaching Certificate: $245
*NEXT* So, now I will go into what everything is in  Must complete 120 credits. These credits must
depth, and what I would choose if I were to go to and include:
apply for post-secondary right now. I chose the  A minimum of 65 total credits in Arts
Psychology: Bachelor of Arts Degree because this courses
interests me and I think it would be beneficial for an  A minimum of 45 of the total credits with
elementary school teacher to be educated in this courses numbered 3000 or higher (3rd
subject. However, this is open to change. You can get year-level courses or higher)
your Bachelor’s degree in almost any subject, so even *NEXT*
though I chose Psychology to research, I might later on You must also have…
change my mind to do, say, a Bachelor of General  A minimum GPA of 2.00 with a minimum
Studies or History, for example. Psychology isn’t a grade of "C" in the following required
teachable subject for high school teachers (like History courses:
or Biology), but it’s a totally fine Bachelor’s degree for *NEXT*
elementary school teachers. And either way, you don’t  6-credit English writing requirement (2
have to declare your Major till around after your second courses)
year, so I could still change my major after my first year o Includes ENGL 1100 (intro to
of university if I decide Psychology is not for me. university writing - essays) and
one of either ENGL 1202 or
Anyways, for this degree, the high school courses that I
1204 (these are more about
would be required to have are fairly simple, they’re
reading and writing literature)
only…
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*NEXT*  9-credit quantitative requirement
 High school graduation o A minimum of 3 approved
*NEXT* quantitative courses (courses
 English 12 (minimum C+) surrounding maths, sciences,
*NEXT* and research)(one must be
 Language 11 (passing grade) from the Faculty of Science
and Horticulture)(for example I
These courses include what I would to just apply
would take Applied Statistics,
and get into Kwantlen as well as what I would
Experimental Psychology, and
need to Major in this particular subject.
Introductory Biology I)
*NEXT* The University courses required to get a *NEXT*
Psychology: Bachelor of Arts Degree at Kwantlen are  24-credit Arts breadth requirement
more complicated. First, sometime around after your (~8 courses) (you can think of these as
second year you need to declare you Major. To make electives)
this declaration for a BA in Psychology, you must have… o A minimum of at least 4
separate courses in different
 A minimum of 18 credits of undergraduate Arts disciplines outside of the
coursework including: major program area (not
*NEXT* Psychology) (one must be at
 3 credits of ENGL at the 1100 level or the 3000-level/third-year level
higher or higher, meaning you must
*NEXT* take one of these courses until
 6 credits at the 1100 level or higher in the your third year) (for example I
Major area would take courses in the
*NEXT* After declaration, you just need to complete sociology, anthropology,
your Degree. The curricular requirements for this geography, and history fields,
include that you…
 and then would take history  PSYC 3210 Attitudes and Persuasion
courses until my third year)  PSYC 3600 Health Psychology
*NEXT* And then you must also get a
*NEXT* Finally, after completing my Bachelor degree I
2.00 GPA and a “C” or higher in…
next need to complete the PDP. The university courses
 Required courses for the major
required for the PDP at SFU…
program
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Since I chose Psychology for my Bachelor of Arts, I’d
therefore be majoring in Psychology. The courses  2 English courses (minimum 6 units with 3 units
required vary. Some courses you have to take, and some of literature)
are choices that I made between my options of different *NEXT*
courses. If I had a choice, I chose the courses that most  1 Canadian History course
interested me and the courses I thought would be most *NEXT*
useful for an elementary school teacher. So, this is an  1 Canadian Geography course
example of what I would take as my required courses for *NEXT*
the major of Psychology program…  1 Laboratory Science course
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*NEXT*  1 Mathematics for teachers course (like the
These first courses are at the 1000 and 2000 MATH 1190 - Mathematics for Elementary School
levels, meaning I would do them during my first Teachers course at Kwantlen)
and second year… I would take these courses at Kwantlen along
 PSYC 1100 Introduction to Psychology: Basic with the required courses I need to major in the
Processes program, to get the other credits I need to
 PSYC 1200 Introduction to Psychology: Areas complete the Bachelor’s degree. Most of these
and Applications course credits overlap, meaning I already needed
 PSYC 2300 Applied Statistics them to complete other parts of my education.
 PSYC 2315 Brain and Behaviour So, I don’t need to worry about them.
 PSYC 2330 Social Psychology
*NEXT* Lastly, the requirements for getting the BC
 PSYC 2385 Cognition
Teaching Certificate aren’t ones that I need to worry
 PSYC 2400 Experimental Psychology:
about anymore, either. You need your BC grade 12
Research Methodology
diploma (which I already had), proficiency in English, a
 PSYC 2350 Psychopathology
fitness to teach (do you have a good and moral character
 PSYC 2320 Developmental Psychology:
and the suitability to teach), and the proper post-
Childhood
secondary studies. This means 120 credits of post-
 PSYC 2370 Psychology of Personality secondary studies and a degree, 6 credits of English, and
30 credits of general coursework in areas related to the
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BC elementary curriculum (including 1 course of
These next courses are at the 3000 and 4000
Canadian studies, 1 course of math, and 1 course of
levels, meaning I would take them during my
science). But, like the requirements for the PDP, I already
third and fourth year… took all of these courses and got these credits I needed
 PSYC 4315 Neuroscience when completing my Bachelor.
 PSYC 3303 Psychology of Learning
 PSYC 3316 Infancy
 PSYC 3370 Advanced Personality Theory *NEXT*
 PSYC 4350 Developmental Psychopathology
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 PSYC 3910 Neuropsychology FUTURE TRENDS OR OUTLOOK:
 PSYC 3215 Psychology of Memory
 PSYC 3920 Aging
*NEXT* So, the salary for an elementary school teacher
can range from $49,000 - $90,000. This all fluctuates
depending on experience, extra education (such as a
master’s degree), etc. But, the median annual salary is
roughly $65,175 (this is found from the 2016 Job bank
wage data).
*NEXT* There are many people employed in this
occupation…
 Roughly about 34,000 in BC
 756,900 in Canada (but that was as of June 2014)
*NEXT* But as you may have heard on the news lately,
there is a recent shortage of teachers. *NEXT*
Therefore, there is a recent demand for new teachers
and the employment prospect are fairly good right now.
*NEXT* As of future trends of this occupation, they
remain positive since education is always a growing
market with our growing population, so teachers are
always going to be needed to some degree.
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FUN FACTS:
*NEXT* First off, even though I have been talking up the
teaching career for some minutes, there are obviously
disadvantages, like all jobs. For some not-so-fun facts, it
is…
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 Not the most glamourous (people often assume
someone wants to be a teacher because they
cannot do anything else)
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 Teachers are often under-paid for the amount
and importance of the work that they do
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 Can be frustrating and stressful (when working
with young children) Researchers even note that
a teacher should be compared to those of other
high stress jobs, such as air-traffic controllers,
firefighters, or pilots.
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 Requires more work than people assume (like
working at home after school hours, grading
work and planning lessons)
*NEXT* But anyways, we want to end on a positive note.
So it’s important to remember that teaching…
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 Enables you to make a difference (because you
are working with young children while they’re
still developing and figuring out who they are,
you can really make a difference in their life)
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 Offers a great schedule (even though you do
have to work during some weekends and
evenings, you get summer, winter, and spring
break off)
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 Different every day (it’s never boring with
different kids, classes, and scenarios)
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 Provides awesome benefits (such as health
insurance and a retirement plan)
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 Lastly, it allows you to create amazing bonds with
the children you teach as well as with your own
children, if you have them (because you’re with
your students almost every day for a year, you
really get to know and care for them, which is
very special. Then also, teachers work the same
hours that their children are in school. So, if you
have kids you can spend time with them and still
see them a lot – you’re not still at work late at
night, like a doctor or some other careers)
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REFERENCES:
Here are my references.
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CONCLUSION:
So, in conclusion, teaching at an elementary school is
awesome. It is an ever-growing occupation and can be
extremely rewarding. I highly suggest looking into
becoming an elementary school teacher. Thank you for
watching and listening to my Career Research Project
Presentation.