teaching career

Educator's life path

A teaching career is professional work as an educator, typically spanning years or decades in schools, colleges, or universities.

The phrase emphasizes teaching as a long-term vocation rather than a temporary job: She's devoted her entire teaching career to inner-city schools.

It often appears in discussions of professional development, burnout, or retirement: After a thirty-year teaching career, he finally had time to write.

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curriculum · pedagogy · mentor · educator · chalkboard · grading · report card · tenure · school board · principal · homework · lecture · blackboard · profession · vocation · certification · pupils · instruction

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Professional path in armed forces

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teaching careerstudent life

Experience of attending school

lifelong learning · professional student · apprenticeship

duration and commitment

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Filling in for educators

student teaching

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