Students in 9th grade (first year of high school) are 14 to 15 years old. Another term used for 9th grade in the United States is "freshman." This means that the student is in their first year of...
Category: GENERAL TEACHING INFO
Teachers can get paid during the summer, they have a choice. Teachers have the option (in most school districts) to collect their salary during the school year months only (usually around 9 months)...
Managing High School students is different than managing students in the lower grade levels. If you are not careful you can get sucked into behavior problems that you might not be able to get out of....
In the United States 7th graders are 12-13 years old. They typially start 7th grade at 12 years old and leave 7th grade at 13 years old. Grade seven is part of "middle school" or "junior high" in the...
There is no federal law or state laws that requires teachers to be drug tested before they are hired or tested randomly after they are hired. It is up to individual school districts to decide whether...
Teacher aides and/or teaching assistants are often thankless jobs. You are there to assist the teacher and work with students that sometimes don’t/can’t/won’t do a lot of work independently. If...