The strongest career editor who broke the upset, lived less and made more money, and only worked for 5 months a year...

Teacher Zhang Xuefeng, a generation of top Internet celebrities, said: "Now as a teacher, the most fragrant thing is to be a college teacher, there is neither schoolwork pressure, nor scientific research pressure, a few classes a week, after class is off work, there are many days off, winter and summer vacations are solid for 3 months, and the holidays are the most ...... in the country"

With Mr. Zhang's appeal and humor, I have a delusion, if I don't plan for Xiao D, it will be good to be a college teacher in the future.

But as long as I moved my fingers and crossed out the live short video of Mr. Zhang Xuefeng, my impulse ended immediately, and my reaction to the word "junior college" returned to instinct: junior college, this seems not easy to accept, if my child is only admitted to a junior college, or even a vocational school......

The old and new perceptions will still fight: God, the college teacher is so comfortable, can he educate the children well? The college really can't go......

But as a blogger, since I have opened the "Big J Employment Agency", the goal is to break the cognitive gap of ordinary parents of our generation, and take a good look at those professions that we don't know about with everyone.

In order to have a more objective understanding of junior college and junior college teachers, I interviewed a teacher who teaches in a national "double high" major in a provincial capital city in the south.

As a front-line specialist educator for 23 years, she said:

"The anxiety of modern parents is so strong, and I have a lot to say. ”

Note: The significance of "double high" in higher vocational education corresponds to the "double first-class" in undergraduate education, which represents the leading position of this major in domestic higher vocational education.

Source: Official website of the Ministry of Education

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"Master's and doctor's degrees are now standard"

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Teacher Yuanyuan is 43 years old this year, graduated in 2001, and she told me very directly that she was able to become a college teacher after graduating from the ordinary second book that year, purely because Yuan's mother planned well and she graduated early.

Teachers like Teacher Yuanyuan who graduated from bachelor's degree and stayed in college basically went to further their studies to master's and doctor's degrees. Teacher Yuanyuan studied to a master's degree in 985.

"You see, you can't stop learning when you have a stable job. ”

Until now, it is almost impossible for ordinary students to want to enter colleges and universities as teachers, and today's higher vocational colleges, master's degree graduation has become the standard.

If we have plans to be a teacher in the future, whether it is a primary school teacher, a middle school teacher, a junior college or an undergraduate teacher, in short, if you want to be a teacher in a regular school within the national education system, then you must recognize the reality, this is a profession that brushes up on academic qualifications.

It is necessary to strive for key universities, graduate students, doctoral students, and study abroad; anyway, wherever the degree is high, go there.

Although teachers with high degrees may not necessarily educate children, in the field of education, there is no sign of changing the trend of academic qualifications.

As parents, we put ourselves in their shoes, who doesn't want their baby to be a doctor from a kindergarten teacher to Tsinghua University?

Since they all want to brush up on academic qualifications, what are the career advantages of college teachers?

Take Teacher Yuanyuan's current job as an example, she only has 5 months a year in class, and she also undertakes related social services and scientific research projects in her spare time, cooperates with enterprises, etc., salary + social services, and basically maintains a monthly income of about 20k+.

Higher vocational education, itself is aimed at "employment", "school-enterprise gathering", professional teachers themselves require vocational skills, familiar with the current job market, and even many schools, encourage teachers to practice in enterprises, encourage teachers to take students to first-line enterprises to practice, work.

Teacher Yuan Yuan (middle in the back row) and the student entrepreneurship team

(Additional insertion: Teacher Yuanyuan refers to the head public higher vocational college where she is located.) The salary of most ordinary college teachers is composed of on-campus salary + financial salary, and the high point of key professional teachers in first-tier cities and key colleges and universities is also linked to their professional titles, which basically fluctuates in 6-8 thousand. ）

The pressure of on-campus teaching tasks is relatively small, the time arrangement is more free, and the combination with the industry is more natural and close, which are the advantages of college teachers, of course, teachers in primary and secondary schools and teachers from key universities also have their own advantages.

Teachers in primary and secondary schools are usually able to solve the problem of their children's enrollment, and professors at major universities have a high degree of social recognition.

Therefore, if a child wants to be a teacher, it is only the first step, study hard and try to brush up on his academic qualifications, and the second step, when it is time to make a choice, it is necessary to see what the child cares about the most.

The admission method of junior college teachers is slightly different from that of primary and secondary school teachers, and the college teacher qualification certificate needs to be recognized by the school after joining the school before the examination.

The steps are:

1. Pay attention to recruitment information: such as "University Talent Network", "University Teacher Talent Network" and other recruitment information;

2. Screen your eligible colleges and universities according to your academic qualifications, majors, and regions to submit resumes;

3. Enter the school for written test and interview, and wait for the notice.

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There are risks associated with any profession

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Parents who hope that their children will become teachers in the future, nine times out of ten, they are going to "regular teachers are rounded off to be considered an iron rice bowl".

Is it really worry-free to be admitted to a university and win the formal teaching establishment?

"Child, this is an era of KPIs! College teachers also have occupational risks!" I could feel that Teacher Yuanyuan on the other end of the phone was shaking her head violently at the moment.

First of all, the first thing that all college teachers can't escape is to evaluate professional titles, apply for topics, and write papers.

Some colleges and universities have also begun to require "either promotion or departure" (explanation: publish a certain number of academic papers, complete scientific research projects or obtain professional title promotions within a specified time, otherwise you may lose your teaching position), according to this trend, it is estimated that it will be fully rolled out.

"For example, I have theoretically worked hard to be rated as an associate professor, and many people think that I have already landed, but I am in my forties, and I still want to be rated as a professor, and I have been working hard. Speaking of this, Teacher Yuanyuan sighed.

There are already three PhDs in Teacher Yuanyuan's professional group, two of whom are postdoctoral fellows who have been released.

The second foreseeable crisis is that the population is declining, and the existing schools and professions are bound to face the survival of the fittest.

We have heard that kindergartens are going out of business, and many village schools are being merged or even closed down, and sooner or later it will be the turn of vocational high schools, junior colleges, and universities.

Source: Internet

Even if it's a school, it's going to cut majors. All formal colleges and universities are striving for better resources to improve the conditions for running schools, strive to become national "double high" professional colleges, and then continue to upgrade their costs.

Therefore, there will definitely be new majors, and there will be majors that are not competitive enough to be eliminated, for example, if the school wants to start recruiting new majors such as live broadcast, e-sports, and new energy, it will have to withdraw some majors;

"Every year, the Ministry of Education will issue red cards to some majors, then this major is waiting for the group to be wiped out, and teachers with insufficient professional titles will also face the danger of being 'optimized', of course, not to say that you are fired, or you are transferred to some departments that lack people.

As for what kind of position is good or not, I can't help myself. ”

Emma, the teacher is really not an iron rice bowl.

But I thought about it again, hasn't the country been emphasizing the need to vigorously develop vocational education in recent years?

In recent years, the national level has been emphasizing the spirit of craftsmanship, requiring skill upgrading and industrial transformation, such as new energy vehicle technology, cloud computing, Internet of Things technology and other professions, which require multi-gradient talents, someone can be the chief engineer, and of course, a large number of skilled workers armed with knowledge are also needed.

The case of such a school has emerged.

The former Shenzhen Vocational and Technical College (now Shenzhen Polytechnic University), known as the junior college 985, not only keeps up with the development of the industry in terms of professional settings, but also establishes cooperative relations with a number of well-known enterprises, providing students with a large number of learning and employment opportunities, such a school model is being adopted by more and more vocational colleges.

There are risks and opportunities, but what kind of vocational education schools and what kind of vocational education positions will break out of the encirclement? Should our children choose to study in these schools, or in the future, can they choose to work in such schools?

This information will not be told to us by cram schools and Olympiad classes, and we can't always think of relying on Teacher Zhang Xuefeng alone.

Paying attention to education news, industry news, and hot issues in the local economic situation will definitely bring benefits to our children.

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Going to college = messing around?

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Professional schools can never escape the impression that "students are all messing around".

Teacher Yuanyuan told me truthfully that there are real children who mess around, "Every year when I welcome freshmen, the children's eyes flicker and call them a 'clear stupidity', and ask them what they want to do, I don't know." ”

But it's also hardly a problem for the kids and the teachers or even the school.

The kids are good kids. Teacher Yuanyuan said with a sigh. Among them, there are also those who worked very hard before, but in an environment where everyone has lost their goals, they become lazy and conformist.

Why is this happening?

"Because most parents in China don't plan their children's academics, or at most, they only do high school. Teacher Yuanyuan said in one word.

When recruiting students, many colleges and universities will indeed "promise": they will pay attention to vocational skills training, and will closely match with market demand, so that students can have a skill, and their graduation jobs are guaranteed.

But the reality is that many schools struggle to deliver on these promises. Why?

The first is resource limitations, for example, the profession is closely linked with the market, which means that more money and resources must be invested, and the same is to open e-sports, new energy, these emerging industries, if 985, 211 to open, there will definitely be more resources inclined, and the faculty and hardware conditions of colleges and universities can not keep up.

The students' own wishes also have a lot to do with it. In the Internet era, the stable, delicate and gorgeous life of white-collar workers, examination editors, and public examinations has been infinitely magnified, and many students are unwilling to do hard work, and they have no academic advantages.

Is there really no hope of going to college? What about the children who have found good jobs and made a solid living in school?

Speaking of which, Teacher Yuanyuan's words can't be stopped, with her years of practical experience, there are many children who are very down-to-earth and have strong hands-on ability.

This strength is sometimes manifested through precociousness and sensitivity.

Many of them will start planning their livelihood early, going to work part-time, and accumulating employment experience as soon as possible;

Source: Internet

Many students from poor families will find ways to find part-time jobs or set up their own stalls to reduce the burden on their families;

Last year, there was a girl in Teacher Yuanyuan's school who set up a stall selling sugar gourds in front of the school in order to earn living expenses.

She was very sad when she was threatened by bad people halfway, but she didn't swallow her anger, and used her media professional advantages to make a video of this experience and post it on the Internet, and finally many people from all over the country came to support her and use her professionalism as a weapon to protect herself.

There are also some children who work very hard and actively participate in various science and technology competitions to add luster to their resumes, or want to continue to improve their studies and strive for post-secondary education......

Teacher Yuanyuan said that the most worrying problem in front of junior college students is not messing around, but mental health problems.

"In our school, every year the entrance psychological test shows that the proportion of students with psychological problems is increasing year by year, and even one or two children have committed suicide. ”

Teacher Yuanyuan herself has encountered, there is a girl in the class, because she is in a bad mood because of lovelorn, she wants to go home, and when she arrives at the door, she finds that she can't open the door, so she jumps off the building.

And they're just teenagers!

According to the data of the Ministry of Education, 70% of vocational school students come from rural families, and their past may be left-behind and migrant children, for various helpless reasons, they get little family support, and when they enter school, they are labeled as "poor learning and mixed life", and when they enter the job market, they have become "the bottom of the contempt chain".

I asked Teacher Yuanyuan, she said that she could not solve the problems of the family, in teaching life, as a teacher, the most important thing for her is to have a good relationship with the students, at the beginning of the school, the teachers will first care about their mood and life, "let them know that they are cared about, not given up." ”

"As long as I'm at school, what time do students call me in the middle of the night, I will go to see what difficulties the child needs help." ”

Don't underestimate what the teacher does to the children, it will really work.

The teacher proudly talked about the fact that with the efforts of a group of very hard-working and dedicated teachers, the admission score of his school has increased year by year, the professional group can rank in the top five in the country, the employment rate of students is good, and there are also some people who have broken through the environment and been admitted to the doctorate, and have been engaged in the design industry after graduation, and there are many successful cases of starting their own businesses......

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How do teachers raise their own babies

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Teacher Yuanyuan himself teaches in colleges and universities, Mr. is an expert in an industry in the province, is a proper "Kochi" family, as a pair of parents of twin children, they are often asked every day: Are you afraid that your children will not be admitted to a good university in the future, or that they will not be as good as themselves?

She on the other end of the phone told me very clearly:

She belonged to her mother's early planning, so that she had to go to high school, take the art class and take the university entrance examination, plus the early graduation year, step by step to become an associate professor, it can be said that it is quite successful, but when it comes to her children, she is not obsessed with letting her children be admitted to undergraduate.

"The eldest of my family was diagnosed with developmental delay at birth, and the second is a smart child who is currently in primary school and has a mediocre academic record. ”

The different congenital conditions of the two children made her realize early on that she could not use the same standards to demand.

The three things she values most are her health, her personality, and her ability to learn for life.

First of all, for the boss who is not as qualified as an ordinary baby, let him draw from elementary school.

"Of course, I am not rushing to train artists to cultivate bosses, but I hope that there will be a channel to release myself and a craft. ”

As for the second child, she said: I don't want my child to be excellent since he was a child, what I care about is that the child slowly becomes excellent.

"I have seen too many children who have always been excellent, in fact, the psychological pressure is also very great, there are many children who have been among the best since childhood, during the college entrance examination, or after the college entrance examination, but suddenly relaxed, lack stamina. ”

We often say that I accept that children are ordinary people, but what is the concept of real ordinary people?

Teacher Yuanyuan said that even now, since elementary school, the undergraduate admission rate is only more than 20 percent.

If you are admitted to the undergraduate, your child is already in the top 20% of the country, and there are very few babies who are admitted to 985 and 211, but we say that I accept that the child is an ordinary person, but at the same time, I think, well, just take a 211 exam......

Most of the ordinary children are studying in secondary and higher vocational schools;

Many people think that going to vocational school is over, and going to junior college is over, but as long as you study it a little, you will find that even if you go to technical secondary school and technical school, you will have the opportunity to continue to be admitted to university.

We have to believe that as long as the children live well, there is no such thing as "really finished".