Teaching music and art to young people can be a particular rewarding career. Allowing youngsters expression through art and music disciplines can result in the foundation of not just a balance of formal versus artistic education.

Teaching English abroad has always been a successful way to earn your travelling stripes, garner work experience and pay your way around the world. Despite the surgence in Spanish, Chinese and Arabic languages spoken globally, English is still the global language of choice.

You might be thinking of adding this website as a magic wand in your teaching career and helping you with certain topics that textbooks may not have yet covered. But you’re also probably thinking is it worth the try? Well, it certainly is.

I’m not suggesting you consider Wikipedia as your sole source of information but as a valuable supplement.

Here are top 5 reasons why you should have Wikipedia as a good teaching tool

You see, kids can be cruel, but you don’t need me to tell you that. The idea that a teacher is a human being too is completely alien when you’re a pupil at a regular educational establishment. Couple this with a daily analysis of your sartorial choices, teaching methods and hormonal cycles, a teaching job is, in my opinion; the occupation of a saint.

But seriously, for a teacher, an in-depth knowledge of your subject is a given (or should be). What about the rest? It’s practically a social work position as opposed to rote learning and writing on a blackboard. (Showing my age there, probably whiteboards now, or even laptops in the desks).

Yet, survey after survey finds that people who choose teaching careers are enthusiastic about their work. Career satisfaction among teachers—and especially new teachers—is very high. In a recent national poll, 96 percent of young teachers said that they loved their jobs and 80 percent said that, if they had to start their careers over, they would still choose teaching.

A refresher guide on the basics of social media will always be helpful for those who are still starting in the social networking scene. Here are a few tips I’ve come up, applicable not only for Twitter but also for other social networking sites

No doubt due to mass redundancies in other sectors, (and the fact that rocky economic times such as these are likely to make more people stop and re-assess their personal situations, there is a marked rise in the amount of people taking up further academic studies and or retraining to take up teaching.

While the common course of action when retrenched or terminated is to look for a substitute opportunity, it’s never too late to back to school to earn a few units which is actually worth a lot in pursuing a career in these dire times. Here are reasons why I think further education may be better than desperate job search

A teacher at a private educational establishment in Dubai, UAE has been sacked for literally taping up a pupils mouth when he wouldn’t shut up, and making his lips bleed when she removed it roughly. Click here to read more about the incident.