How do you start a teaching career?
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- d_rek0
If you want to teach at the University level in the US there are a couple of different options:
Adjunct Instructor (AKA part-time)
You only need a bachelors to teach adjunct. It might only be 1 or 2 classes a semester and the pay will probably be not that great. IMO the pay wasn't worth the amount of time you need to invest inside and outside of class. For example, they wanted to contract me out for just over $2k USD for adjunct instructor at an expensive art college in Detroit. This would have been 2 three-hour classes a week for 16 weeks, or 96 hours of on-site instruction. But that didn't account for any expenses such as gas, materials, etc. And after talking to other people who had taught adjunct it sounded as if you had approx. the same amount of time (6hrs/week) outside of class you had to put in just for stuff like grading, answering emails, meeting with students, etc. So if you assume that you're billing 12hrs/week for 16 weeks, that's 192 hrs, which barely worked out to over $10/hr for adjunct instruciton. Hardly worth it IMO.Full-time Instructor / Professor
Get a masters, yo. Live in debt the rest of your life, yo.