EL Numbers of Note Why did you become a teacher? - ASCD

EL Numbers of Note

Why did you become a teacher?

74%

to share their

love of learning

and teaching

Here's what educators

said

to help

71% students reach their full potential

85% to make a difference in the lives of children

66%

to be part of those

"aha" moments

50%

because a teacher inspired them when

they were young.

32%

39%

14%

4%

to make a difference in their community

to have summers off

to have a good work/family balance

for the earning potential

Adapted from illustration by jennylipets/shutterstock

Source: Data from a survey of 20,000 U.S. public school teachers in Primary sources: America's teachers on teaching in an era of change (3rd ed.), by Scholastic and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, 2014.

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