Want to become a teacher?

Are you thinking of becoming a teacher? Find out if teacher is the right job for you. Get answers to the following questions: What does a teacher do? What personality traits do teachers have? Will robots replace teachers? How much does a teacher earn and is it a job in high demand?

Want to know what personality traits you have and if the job of teacher fits your personality? Take the free career aptitude test.


What does a teacher do?

A teacher is someone who teaches. As a teacher, you must be able to present the subject material in a fascinating way. Additionally, the type of education and your teaching method strongly depend on the subject and the target audience. For instance, you can teach languages, technical subjects or in the field of self-development or art. The target audiences (who you teach) can vary from young kids, to adolescents in secondary school or universities to adults and working people, for instance in night school. Adolescents demand different qualities than university students or adults. In general, as a teacher, you need to have social skills (you must be passionate about teaching others something), and you must be resourceful. In higher education, you might be challenged more intellectually and in secondary school, you might have to be able to stand your ground.


What personality traits do teachers have?

There are two characteristics many teachers have in common. Teachers are often human-oriented (score highly in the SOCIAL category) and creative (score highly in the ARTISTIC category). Do you have the same personality? Perhaps the profession of teacher would suit you.

Curious which professions are characterised by the same two personality traits as teachers? Go to the career choice profiles. Here you can find professions with the same profile. But you can also find professions with other characteristics. Which professions do you like and which professions don’t appeal?



Will robots replace teachers?

Many jobs will be replaced by robots. How robot-proof are teachers? The chances of robotisation of a teacher’s activities amount to 3%. This means that there is a LOW CHANCE that the tasks and activities performed by teachers will be taken over by robots and smart software within the next 20 years.


Teacher Vacancies and Salary

Want to find out what you can expect from your next career move as a teacher? How much does a teacher earn and is it a job in high demand? You can find out the average annual salary and current vacancies at Adzuna. Adzuna collects all the vacancies for teachers in one place and has the largest collection of live salary data.

Want to find more jobs as a teacher in other countries?

Go to Jooble for jobs as teacher all over the world.

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