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Your guide to secondary education and career information: learn about becoming a high school teacher.

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If your plan of becoming a high school teacher is right around the corner (or you'd rather teach in middle school or junior high), you have a lot of work and a lot of fun cut out for you. Nearly 1.8 million people currently teach in America's middle, junior high and high schools.*

Secondary teachers are a well-educated and dynamic group, spending long days investing in the lives of tomorrow's generation. Bringing their own passions and expertise to classrooms across the country, they inspire students to grapple with the ideas and practices they will take with them into their adult lives.

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We've put together a collection of information to help you as you consider the role you'd like to play within America's secondary schools.

From the latest degree and certification information to career ideas and in-depth interviews, you are sure to find information that will prepare you to start the process of becoming the best high school teacher or middle school teacher you can be.

Becoming a High School Teacher: Secondary Education Degrees

With the teacher workforce in the U.S. becoming increasingly more educated, there has never been a better time to invest in your career. And whether you are just starting your undergraduate education or are heading back for an advanced degree, you have come to the right place for the latest information on programs that will set you up to succeed.

If you want to become a high school teacher, learn about the wide variety of offerings available to you in our secondary education degree programs article.

If a busy lifestyle has you wondering what to do, find insight and inspiration by reading our article about online degrees for middle school and high school teachers. After researching, make sure you visit our secondary education degree directory to get started today.

Secondary School Career Information

Upon becoming a high school teacher you will influence the lives of your students on a daily basis. The effect you'll have on their development, both personally and academically, is far reaching.

However, we know that it's important to you to bring home enough money to pay the bills. So we researched the latest, most up-to-date secondary teacher salary data to help you make the most you can in the industry.

If you want to know what to expect in common middle school, junior high and high school teacher positions, find out in our secondary education jobs article.

Then read up on common secondary school curricula to get an idea of what you might teach once you get the job you want. And finally, make sure you read our "Six Secrets of Secondary Teaching" article to prepare yourself for a vastly different world than the one you remember when you were an adolescent in middle school or high school.

High School Teacher Interviews

To help you get a feel for what teaching is really like today, we went straight to the source. Caroline Zogas, a first year history teacher in Illinois, sheds some light on teacher job availability and offers helpful job-hunting tips in her teacher job market interview.

And Will Hooper, a science teacher at a private high school in Alabama, inspires new teachers to create dynamic teaching environments in his private secondary teacher interview.

By becoming a high school teacher, you'll enter a career in secondary education that will be one of the most rewarding things you'll ever do. If you are passionate about your subject matter and are up for the challenge, our leaders of tomorrow are waiting for you in a secondary school classroom nearby. What are you waiting for?

_{*Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}