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Teach music doesn't suck if you enjoy teaching music. Also, high school lvl teaching and dealing stupid teens is a hell of alot more stressful than college teaching.
Highschool=kids MUST be there
College=kids WANT to be there
That makes the difference.
It's much, much easier to get a job in the public school system than at a university. Teaching at a lower level beefs up your resume while you are getting your PHD. And depending on what you teach in college, the teaching segment may not even be your primary job; lots of professors are expected to remain relevant in their roles, which means getting published for continued research.I will never teach lower than college lvl unless I HAVE to.
On the university level and in some colleges, in addition to teaching, a history professor must also engage in professional development. This includes attending conferences, conducting original research, and publishing. Failure to publish can result in denial of tenure, and while tenured professors are generally safe in terms of being able to keep their jobs, they tend to publish and stay active in academia for the purpose of obtaining grants, adding prestige to their institutions, and attracting new students.
Here's what we do:
Research. That includes visiting archives, library research, fieldwork, etc., but mostly involves constant writing. We are expected to publish consistently in top journals and to write books in order to keep our jobs.
Other publications. We are expected to write book reviews and make other such contributions to our field of study on a regular basis. This includes major work like editing series of books for publishers, as well as minor work like writing articles for encyclopedias.
I have several publishing projects of my own going right now: a textbook that tries to tell the story of the American people in a new way the Oxford Book of the American South that has the capacity to reach an audience beyond any classroom, and a very large research project that is trying to create one of the first books to take advantage of the exciting development of the so-called electronic super-highway. All of these projects are extremely exciting to me and influence the way I teach every day. And virtually all of it is done in what appears to people outside academic life as the "spare time" of breaks, summers and leaves.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-does-a-history-professor-do.htm#did-you-knowA typical university professor teaches just a few courses – sometimes out of textbooks that they themselves wrote – and focus on areas that they studied and fell in love with as teens, so there isn’t a lot of homework to do, per se. However, they are highly encouraged to write. “Publish or perish” is the refrain from the Dean. So they research and kibbitz and hire their best graduate students to help them write their next book. Pretty cool if you love doing that stuff.
Smash Xyro and Real life Xyro are different. Just like online Xyro and Smash Xyro are different.Allan teaching classes would be...interesting.
I've had 2 female and 1 male history teacher in junior college. Not one of them have had to do any of that while stationed there. All they say is that its an awesome easy job with great benefits once you finally get in.Many two-year professors are expected to do the same things.