-: Yes, you can, go into the classroom
without a formal education degree, but I think,
first and foremost regardless
of what your undergrad or even Master's Degree is is
to have an open mind, and to be ready, to be flexible,
and to have a hunger to learn because one
of the best parts about being a teacher is
that there's always professional development available.
There's always new curriculum that's coming out,
and so just to be open-minded to that is something
that you can't learn in a classroom,
but that quality will carry you through when it gets tough.
Ideally the track would be to be,
if you're gonna teach the earlier grades would be
to have an elementary education degree
from Rollins and do an internship.
Usually, you do two, a junior and a senior internship,
and then you go into the field of teaching.
Then, after that, you do have a mentor to help you through.
I would definitely say that someone that's good
for this job is someone that's positive and upbeat
and that's willing to be flexible with everything
'cause when you're a classroom teacher,
you're also a janitor, you're a nurse.
Sometimes you get called mom, you are their mom (laughs).
You're their teacher, and so just be ready
for all those roles and be willing to keep your chin up,
and again, have that open mind, and just be ready.
As long as you're upbeat and a happy person, and are willing
to exude that onto your students,
you'll make it (laughs), you'll be successful.
TeacherTube, which is just like YouTube,
but it's all for teacher videos
so that's a great way to start.
To start, just watching videos, watching teachers teach.
Then, there's a lot of organizations you can join,
Reading Teacher, there's a bunch of them,
that you can just google.
I don't think that there's an actual organization
that people can join,
but really the internet's gonna be your best resource
in terms of videos and resources.
It's actually overwhelming how much there is out there.