Eight Great Reasons to Teach Preschool

Preschool teachers may never be rich and famous but they sure do have a lot of reasons to love what they do. Here are a few:

1. Preschoolers say the funniest things and can make you laugh to the point of crying.

2. The hugs are in abundance. A heartfelt hug can brighten your day, even when it’s accompanied by a particularly wet and sticky nose wipe on your shirt.  :)

3. A preschooler's job is to learn through play. Being a preschool teacher allows you to sing, dance, play and act goofy all day. Best of all you get paid to do it!

4. Preschool teachers get to be creative and share their creativity and talents with their students.

5. Watching a child learn and grow before your eyes is amazing. Preschool children change so much over the course of a year. Preschoolers also teach the adults in their lives new things all of the time.

6. Preschool children have a natural curiosity and love of learning.  Every experience allows them to learn something new.

7. As a preschool teacher you get to work with some amazing adults. The therapists, paraprofessionals and school staff are incredibly talented. They are masters at working with young children. They teach the children and us as teachers a lot. 

8. Preschool art projects and preschool drawings just make you happy. I dare you to look at a brightly colored piece of art created by a preschooler without smiling. When children bring me their artwork as a gift, it melts my heart.

With the changes in education, preschool feels like it could be the last frontier of fun in school. So take every opportunity to laugh, sing, create and play with the preschoolers in your life! Make learning fun again.