Athena Career Academy News

While it's important that you find a career that provides some financial security and stability, you'll want to make sure that whatever you do, it's personally fulfilling as well. It's why many people look for jobs that involve helping people. The following are a few careers that help people that you might want to consider pursuing:

While most people have some affinity for dealing with kids, there are definitely some individuals who have a much more refined view of how children should be treated and educated. These individuals – with a true talent for not only "dealing" with children but also for educating them – are indispensable.

Student teaching is a perfect opportunity for you to apply everything you’ve learned in college to the test. As a student teacher, you need all the advice you can get as your attempt to figure out the right path for your teaching career.

A typical workday for a teacher is anything but typical. An awesome play for the day can go out the window in a matter of minutes. It is easy to get sidetracked when working with children. That is why important that teacher have a good sense of humor and the ability to think like their students. 

We are going to let you in on a little secret; preschool teachers love their jobs. And why wouldn’t they? Teachers are some of the most important professionals in the world. Sure, it’s rewarding.

Sitting quietly with your legs crossed on a yoga mat seems about as far away from a preschool classroom as you can get. However, there is a way to combine your interest in yoga and meditation with a career with kids.

Entering the education field is a high calling and only the best of the best are equipped to handle the responsibility of educating other people’s children. Teachers do far more than simply understanding and teaching core subjects like Reading, Social Studies, Math and Science. As important as an academic education is, learning doesn’t only happen within the pages of a book.

Love kids? Love learning? Want a career that combines both?

A degree in Early Childhood Education prepares you with the skills necessary to help cultivate healthy growth in children, shaping their lives and the communities that they live in for the better. Studies show the earlier kids are enrolled in early education the chances of them dropping out of high school diminishes and enrollment in higher education increases.

Early childhood education is a career many people choose to pursue because of the personal fulfillment that they know it will provide as well as the fact that there will always be a need for early childhood education professionals.