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Team 3

Audrey English teacher/writer Education needed: Skills needed: What you should be good at: Money: Thalia To be a writer, you need a college degree in English, journalism, or comunications. Your skills should be that you are disciplined and you should have a good imagination.(For fictional writing.) You should be good at English, writing, and reading. Your annual wage should be around $58,850. You should also be good with people, such as publishers. You should be prepared to not be very social.
 * College degree (minimum bachelor, maximum master), some states require master
 * must pass tests in reading and writing
 * need computer training in some states
 * required to take some core undergraduate courses in addition to some elective courses
 * must take many education courses
 * may go to workshops to learn how to teach better
 * need to study different cultures to know how to help ESOL students keep up with the class
 * must have a license to teach
 * must perform a student-teaching internship to prepare (teacher helper)
 * English skills
 * planning skills (must plan lessons)
 * grading skills
 * leadership skills
 * organization skills
 * patience
 * creativeness
 * technology skills (for when you use technology to teach)
 * communication skills
 * talking to students
 * making the students want to learn (for example, making interesting lesson plans)
 * working with technology to create interesting and creative lessons
 * assigning homework and class projects (giving students enough time to finish, and making them interesting enough to do.)
 * grading papers and projects
 * helping students when they are not doing as well as they should
 * dealing with misbehaving students
 * creating tests
 * dealing with the stress of teaching
 * you should be good enough at English so that you can teach it well
 * communicating with parents if a student is misbehaving or needs extra help
 * being able to teach in full classes, small groups or individually
 * preparing students for standardized testing
 * enforcing rules
 * supervising students not in the classroom--lunch, detention ,ect.
 * $57,620 annually for middle school teachers
 * may earn extra money over the summer if they get a summer job or teach summer schoo l
 * may receive extra pay by coaching sports
 * also could earn more by working with students in after-school activities
 * getting a master's degree often raises salary