>> They need to start volunteering in local classroom.
They need to find out whether they even like it.
People think that it's an easy job, but it isn't.
You do have to put in a lot of time, a lot of preparation.
You have to study yourself.
You have to practice.
You have to fail.
You have to take risks.
And I think that if you go into the classroom and you start volunteering with a group
of students, you'll find out whether you even like it.
And some people find out very quickly that this is not for them.
They find out the amount of work it is and they give it up immediately.
They find out that teaching is not just teaching content.
It's teaching about values, teaching about themselves.
It's being a social worker.
Being a parent.
Being a, more than teaching the classroom.
I would say that they have to get themselves into the system.
And now the School of Education here
at Cal State Long Beach has a really good system to get into the process.
You first go observe.
One of your classes is just observation.
The next semester you have to put in a few hours working with a small group of kids.
The next semester you have to continue this, so by the time you're doing your,
your methods classes like teaching reading methodology, then you're doing lessons.
Like you have to prepare lessons and doing them.
So slowly they, they have a system in which you're given more opportunities
to be with students and teach them.
So by the time you're doing your student teaching, you have a lot of experience.