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What steps should i take in becoming a preschool teacher?

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I RECENTLY GRADUATED FROM A COLLEGE TO BE A DENTAL ASSISTANT AND I AM A LICENSED MANICURIST. IN ADDITION, I HAVE ALWAY'S BEEN INTRUSTED IN BECOMING A PRE SCHOOL TEACHER I LOVE KIDS AND HELPNIG THEM TO LEARN. I AM 22YRS OLD AND HAVE A LITTLE SISTER WHO IS 3 YRS. OLD AND A BROTHER WHO IS 4 YRS. OLD AND I LOVE HELPING THEM TO LEARN NEW THINGS. I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE JOB DESCRIPTION IN BEING A PRESHOOL TEACHER AND THE STEPS I NEED TO TAKE TO GET THERE.

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  1. you need to have courses in early childhood development, undertake a training in infant-toddler CPR, best of all you must like to be around kids, and you must have a lot of patience


  2. To get a job at a local day care center and not the public school all you have to do is apply to be an assistant.  In MA you would need to work at a child care center as an assistant for nine months and then you need to take a child development class.  Then you need to apply for your teaching license.  I am not sure if it is the same in each state.  For this, you need to apply for through your local Office of child care services...in MA it is called Department of Early Education and Care...DEEC. They are the ones who license people to work in day care centers....

  3. Well congratulations on your graduation from college!  And you seem to have various interests which is great.  There are associate degrees in early childhood education at some community colleges but those with a 2 year degree most likely are not going to be hired by a public school system but perhaps a private day care center (though not sure for certain) and the pay is not supposed to be that great, just fyi :)  Some colleges or universities offer 4-year/bachelor degree programs in early childhood education which I believe allows the person to teach from nursery school to second (or perhaps third) grade.  There is a student teaching component where the student will have actual hands-on training in a classroom with an actual full class of students under the supervision of an experienced teacher.  As the student teacher, you would develop your own lesson plans, teaching methods and act as the teacher.

    Your best bet before even applying to a teaching program is to work as a teacher's assistant and see how difficult and stressful it actually can be.  I worked as a teacher's assistant at a private day care and the teacher's assistants worked side by side with another teacher's assistant as opposed to a certified teacher so while there was a lot more autonomy but also a lot more responsibility and of course more of a feel of what it's like to be responsible for classroom management than in a public school setting where teacher's assistants do a lot less decision making.

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