Introduction to Teaching

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Getting Started

A Brief(ish) Timeline of Education in the U.S.

Whether the debate's about gender, race, how much you have to pay, or the color of your uniform, education in the U.S. of A has had its fair share of controversy. Not to mention plain old change, g...

Top 10 Rewards of Being a Teacher

Not sure the teacherly path is the one for you? Far along it already and wishing that when you'd seen two roads diverged in a wood, you'd taken any one except for the one traveled by the prepubesce...

The Top 10 Challenges of Being a Teacher

We're not saying we have all the solutions. We're just here to warn you. 1. What's your name again? Learning more about your studentsYep, we're putting this before discipline. Maybe you get a new b...

13 Things You Won't Expect About Teaching

One thing you knew you could expect is that we'd have an article reminding you about what you would not expect. 1. You'll get the first-day jitters.Teachers can teach for years and still be plagued...

10 Books Every Teacher Should Read

Here at Shmoop, we love a good list, and we know you do, too. So let's get right to it. We've come up with ten books related to teaching and learning that will make you think, wonder, re-evaluate o...

10 Tips for Surviving Your First Year

You've planned countless lessons. Graded mountains of homework. Seen your students struggle, grow, struggle some more, and demonstrate their new knowledge in touching, unexpected, or aggravating wa...

Fine-Tuning Your Educational Philosophy

We don't mean you have to decide whether you're Nietzschean or Derridean before you teach a third-grade history class. (Because duh, third grade is soooo Derridean.)But having a set of core values...