Thursday, September 26, 2013
Comparing salaries
This week was a very interesting week of discussion. It has been interesting talking about teaching as an overall profession, and the view society has on it. I found this article relating to the money having to do with education. It talks about teachers salaries and what money is going to in school systems. http://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2012/sep/11/education-compared-oecd-country-Pisa is the article. I found the chart about teacher salaries to be interesting and surprising. Looking at it the United States is actually at the top of salaries compared to other countries. This makes me a little sad though realizing the fact that teachers her in the United States don't get paid very much and majority of other countries are even less than us. There were some other stats in the article, but that one really stood out to me especially since teaching is my planned career and ultimately my livelihood.
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Amanda as I looked at the link that you attached I was shocked to see that teachers in the US got paid the most, especially since we talked about how teachers are not treated as highly as they should in the US. I think that is one quality in a teacher though that makes them as good as they are. Teachers are not in it for the money if they were they would be a doctor or a lawyer or have chosen a higher paying profession. Teachers are in the profession because they want to help children and make a difference in at least one child's life. To me at least I think this is more valuable than an amount of money, the feeling a teacher has to get to know that they are the one that helped a child learn to read or add numbers together has to be so rewarding. I know I can't wait till I am able to hopefully experience these things and feel that sense of accomplishment.
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