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Edit: Thank you all for your honesty! After further consideration, I've decided to put off the idea of grad school, at least for a while, and instead continue to pursue other passions.

Thank you all again, and I wish you all good health and happiness.

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I graduated from college about a year ago with a bachelor's in English, but lately I've been feeling fairly lost. I thought that I wanted to be an editor or a copyeditor, but I really don't think I'm as well suited to it as I hoped.

When I was in middle school and high school, I worked a lot with younger kids, and I spent a lot of time tutoring them and my friends. I really enjoyed helping them, and I think I might have gone Education had it not been for a particularly...unkind teacher, who made me begin to fear school with a passion.

Now that the chips are down, I find myself wondering if I should apply to my state's MAT program and pursue education as a career. I am even applying to be a substitute teacher for my old school. Ido have concerns, though they may be unfounded.

My questions are: Do you enjoy being a teacher, overall? Is your happiness quotient fairly high? Are Gen Alpha students truly a nightmare, or is that just the media? Is the pay terrible? (Below $40,000?) Do you have mobility with regards to job locations? Do you get to take sick days? If so, how many? Would you do it again?

I would love to go back and re-learn everything that I learned while growing up in school, now that I have an appreciation for knowledge/learning. What is the best way to re-learn stuff from school? Are there any resources like freecodecamp, but for school subjects instead of coding?

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It seems the mods of this sub have abandoned it so I believe that it’s time for someone to hit up r/Redditrequest and request to take over this sub. I would do it myself but I recently got banned from a sub (a long story but it was bullshit) so they won’t approve me. There is way too much crap on this sub and it needs to be cleaned up.

I was wondering if there what the guide lines are for determining what reading level proficiency a person has. I've heard recently that a large number of Americans are below the 6th grade reading level and I was wondering what criteria that entailed exactly?

I think the incentives are completely wrong in education and it’s failing both students and teachers.

As the title suggests, I got into teaching because I was passionate about my subject area and wanted to help young people learn from my experiences and expertise. Yet in my time, I’ve found it’s mostly about being a carer to 25 kids at a time. I think this is a big reason why so many teachers feel emotionally burned out and ultimately leave the profession. So you end up with a lot of teachers who can’t teach but are good at handling the admin and behaviour management side of the job.

The system also fails students by increasingly prioritising a false interpretation of wellbeing over setting them up for success in the future. The intentions are there, but we’re doing it wrong. We’re there for their every need and all this does is perpetuate their learned helplessness. It’s a severely short-sighted approach and it sets students up for failure in the real world. Real wellbeing comes from the sense of pride and accomplishment we get when we overcoming challenges. Not by never feeling discomfort.

Anyway, I'd love it if you would have a read of my article and let me know what you think, whether you agree or not. Thanks everyone

Why Bad Incentives Are Failing Teachers and Students

PS: I'm Australian but from what I can tell, this is a universal issue... a western education system issue at least. Perhaps the education department overhaul will help, perhaps it'll make it worse, I'd love to hear your thoughts. Cheers.

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Hi everyone. I'm a (recently) 18 yo. I live in Chile, and right now I'm looking into universities hopefully moving to USA. So, I wanted to know everything I need to know before trying. What do i need for admission? How expensive can a career be? Is it affordable while working? What happens if I get there in my 20's? I'd also appreciate some advice from a foreigner as well.

To be honest the current university curriculum in almost every universities seems to be outdated and the thing is that the professors are not willing to change the way of their teaching and keeps sticking to the legacy models . In my experience all of our teachers follow the old model imposing their ideas on students and not willing to change even the tiniest bit in their approach towards teaching or the curriculum . What if we begin an initiative where students itself learns some topic of their interests relevant in their field i.e for example one student might be knowledgeable in Digital forensics and the other might be more into penetration testing .What if they share this knowledge in ways which their peers will understand as it is easier for students to get along well and motivate each other . The teacher would act as a guide to keep them on track and check their progress often providing them with supplements . I honestly think this can make college life much more interesting and fun to learn . What do you guys think

I am currently a teacher at a SEMH school. If I wanted to change career into a special needs occupational therapist, would I need to go back to uni to complete another degree, or is there a way I can transfer my skills/degree into a shorter and less expensive course that could support me to become an OT?

Hi, reddit peeps! what are your thoughts?

Hello guys,

I used to work in marketing for more than 5 years, and I would like to explore teaching. I am from Portugal, BsC in Marketing, 30 years old, currently living in NL and have freedom to travel wherever.

My options: — Sociology/Psychology/History - Premaster + master + master in education = 2,5 years —English and Spanish teaching - BsC in Education in teaching these languages - 4 years

I would like to ask your sincere advice and tips for making this big transition. Also for people that have shifted how did it feel, and what would u do differently?

Thanks a lot for your sharing, I really appreciate!

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I’m almost done with my bachelors in this major. I’m just curious what kind of jobs/pay people get after obtaining this degree. Is it worth completing?

I am an immigrant from the philippines and just moved into california, and as far as i know i am in 10th grade.

i will also add that i am gonna be attending online school instead of regular school, are there any differences in their education system or is it the same and the only difference is that i will be attending online classes instead?

i am a consistent honors student and im scared that im gonna fall behind, extremely, might i add. im aware that the education system between the philippines and usa may be very different (perhaps even more difficult? although from what ive seen its not the case), and i just wanna know whats the difference between the two so i can pre-study and prepare myself for when i go to school.

what do students usually study here? are there any stark differences in what students study in the philippines? what is the curriculum over here?

whats even better if i can find out what lessons they study so i can see if i need to study it just in case we didnt cover it before.

thank you so much in advance. 🫶

One of my students’ has an interview for ‘education’ (I’m not going into too much detail here just for identification purposes) and I’ve done 2-3 interviews but we’ve talked about getting one more in before her interview next week

I have run out of questions

Anyone got any good ‘Harvard’ style questions (generally ones you can talk about and explore/show how you think: (about topics in education- looking at some of their reading lists etc it might consist of: designing research, education and social justice, education systems, globalisation, neuroscience, post colonial literature, play/creativity, international education, formal and informal learning contexts)

Any help would be appreciated

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This is a pretty specific question but in my country you have to give a presentation for your finals. In this presentation you have to include an Interview. My topic is about historical revisionism in Japan and it would make most sense to interview natives that grew up there. But I have no idea where to find people to interview. With some vocabulary research I think I speak Japanese to be able to do the interview. Written answers or spoken answers in memos to my questions would also be good! Does anyone know how to go about this problem?

I’m taking a graduate level class where work is “student lead” so we are able to come up with our own ideas for final projects. We don’t have any sort of rubric so I’m flying by the seat of my pants.

Our professor expressed that she wants us to spend a total of 12 hours on our final projects and if we do less than that we probably won’t get a good grade.

However, I’m a slow reader and a slow writer so I have absolutely no idea how long this paper needs to be. For me, 6-10 pages in 12 hours is my max. But then I have other people telling me this is not enough. Advice?

I'm working on a project on this subject and I'd like to hear your thoughts.

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How can someone who has failed in higher education be motivated?

TL;DR: Course Hero terminated my account unfairly after 10 years of contributions, won’t let me withdraw my $300 balance, and has ignored my appeal. Seems like I’m not alone in this.

Hi Redditors,

I’m here to share my recent frustrating experience with Course Hero, where I have worked as a contributor for over 10 years. My account was abruptly terminated, citing “repeated violations” of their Terms of Use. However, this claim is inaccurate. In the past 5 years, I’ve only had one minor issue (an incomplete answer flagged in June 2024), and the last issue before that was in 2019—clearly not a pattern of repeated violations.

The content they flagged this time was a statistical question I authored to help students. It was my original work, created with the goal of fostering learning. Despite submitting a formal appeal explaining my situation, I haven’t received any response. What’s worse, my account balance of around $300 remains locked, and I can’t withdraw my earnings.

After some online research, I’ve discovered that many other contributors have faced similar issues, with some waiting months for a response—or never hearing back at all. It seems Course Hero may block emails associated with terminated accounts, further preventing communication and resolution.

I’m posting this here to expose Course Hero’s unfair practices and to ask:

Have any of you experienced something similar with Course Hero or another platform?

What steps would you recommend to resolve this?

This situation has severely impacted my livelihood, and I feel it’s important to spread awareness about how contributors are treated. Thank you for reading, and any advice or support would mean a lot!

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Link to OP: Professor obsessed with cheating has me paranoid. : r/education

First off, I'd love to thank everyone who responded and either:

a. Reassured me

or

b. Accused me of cheating

Both were needed for my frame of mind at the time, as some provided some much needed comic relief for me and others made me realize: this dude isn't out to get me, he is just seriously concerned about the integrity of his class.

Having multiple degrees, I've worked on a stupid amount of insanely stupid group projects and I started to think about the number of times me and other students have had to ask others if they're using AI for their portion in recent years because it was insanely obvious.

Ole dude takes his damn sweet time grading shit but I got all A marks.

I'm only halfway through so I don't know the final outcome but I've been breathing a little easier.

I went against some of the better advice and wrote a paper right before it was due and turned it in as-is. I checked over it once for insanely obvious mistakes but was more concerned with it appearing AI generated.

His feedback? I quote this directly:

Pretty good writing; pretty good answers; pretty good use of your sources.

My grade? 97.5, mistakes be damned. Guess he was just glad to know I wrote my own paper.

I try not to use my schizophrenia as a crutch and try to act as if I'm as 'normal' as possible but it really does appear the paranoid side of me got the best of me. I'd very much like to thank everyone for responding, regardless of how positive or negative, as it convinced me to not drop the class and regardless of if I pass, I am going to pass without being accused of cheating.

in my final year of high school rn, and have needed to start thinking about what i want to do after school!

i almost definitely want to go to uni since i get good grades, so it seems like the obvious path (as well as i think that i would enjoy it) but i genuinely have no possible clue what i would want to study

i like quite a lot of topics/find a lot of things interesting but not enough to pinpoint just one and make it into a career 😭 if anyone has any advice such as courses/jobs that they went into, aptitude or career tests (though i may have already done them) or just any other general advice would be appreciated!!

So I’m(15F, american citizen) soon gonna be taking the HiSET to get a head start on college and I’m curious if scottish community colleges accept HiSETs? and anyone who has a HiSET or GED could you tell me how long it took you to get it? thank you for reading and considering 🙏

my teacher is making us turn something in to both canvas and turnitin and she said if you get above 15% on turnitin you get an automatic 0. i got 24%. you know what it highlighted? my fkn headings, sentences i wrote myself, sentences that came directly from websites that i cited and put a link for in my citations. it isnt actually graded yet, im not sure if she’s going to ignore or fix this grading flaw before giving me a grade, but seriously? 15% or less on turnitin? in my experience that’s asking for a lot with turnitin, always has been