English / Language Arts Teacher

Career Area: Education and Training

Occupation Group: K-12 Teaching

Salary

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A typical English / Language Arts Teacher earns the following wages (national and state):

State

The average salary in North Carolina for those pursuing this career is $42,524

National

The average salary in the United States for those pursuing this career is $46,216

What Does a Professional in this Career Do?

Teaches English in elementary to secondary schools. Focuses on English, writing, composition, literature, and critical analysis. In elementary school, language arts classes focus on basic reading, writing and linguistic / communication skills. In middle school, the English curriculum evolves and expands to include more complicated reading comprehension, such as fiction, poetry and essays. In teaching high school, the focus relies on developing analytical skills.

Employment Trends

The job demand and job growth statistics shown here were derived from job posts over the past year. Expected job growth projections are extrapolated from year-over-year job post listing history.

Job demand and job growth is expected at the following rates:

Skills

A professional in this position typically utilizes the following skills in the course of everyday work in this exciting and challenging field:

Baseline Skills

The following are baseline skills every English / Language Arts Teacher is expected to have in order to experience success in this field:

• English: English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
• Communication Skills: The ability to convey information to another effectively and efficiently.
• Teamwork / Collaboration: Experience working in collaborative efforts with a team to achieve a common goal or to complete a task in the most effective and efficient way.
• Writing: Experience expressing business messages effectively in written form. This may include planning drafting and revising as necessary.
• Planning: Working experience with the process of thinking about and organizing the activities required to achieve desired goals.

Specialized Skills

These skills are specific to working in this career:

• Teaching: Working experience of teaching, which is defined as imparting knowledge to an individual or class, or instruct someone as to how to do something.
• Language Arts: Language Arts (also known as English Language Arts) is the name given to the study and improvement of the arts of language.
• Lesson Planning: Working experience developing or implementing teachers' description of a course of instruction for a lesson.
• Special Education: Special education (also known as special needs education, aided education, exceptional education or Special Ed) is the practice of educating students with special educational needs in a way that addresses their individual differences and needs.
• Progress Reports: A report or account is any informational work (usually of writing, speech, television, or film) made with the specific intention of relaying information or recounting certain events in a widely presentable form.

Distinguishing Skills

Any English / Language Arts Teacher that possesses the following skills will stand out against the competition:

• Learning Styles: Learning styles refer to a range of competing and contested theories that aim to account for differences in individuals' learning.
• Tutoring: Working experience of Tutoring, which is the act of teaching or instructing, or remedial or additional teaching, designed to help people who need extra help with their studies.
• Teaching Speakers of Other Languages: encompasses what used to be called TEFL (Teaching English as a Foreign Language) and TESL (Teaching English as a Second Language). Generally, TEFL emphasises aspects of teaching English in countries where English is not widely used in daily life, such as Russia, China, France and Brazil.
• Assessment Data:
• Social Studies: Social studies is the integrated study of the social sciences, humanities and history.

Salary Boosting Skills

A professional who wishes to excel in this career path may consider developing the following highly valued skills:

• Speech Language Pathology: Speech-language pathology is a field of expertise practiced by a clinician known as a speech-language pathologist (SLP), also called speech and language therapist, or speech therapist, who specializes in the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of communication disorders, cognition, voice disorders, and swallowing disorders.

Experience

This position typically requires the following level of experience. The numbers presented in the pie charts below were derived from actual job posts over the past year. Not all job postings list experience requirements.

Common Job Titles

It is possible to find work in this field in positions commonly listed as the following job titles:

• English Teacher
• High School English Teacher
• Certified English Teacher Remote
• Middle School English Teacher
• Middle School Ela Teacher

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