How is college teaching different from school teaching in India?

A tenured position in academia is vastly superior to a high school teaching job, although the pay might be worse. The hours, the schedule, the intellectual challenge, the students, etc. will all be better. However, you cannot choose to be a professor. You can go to graduate school, get a Ph.D, work constantly for 5-10 years in the process, publish a great deal, teach a lot (at the adjunct level, starting with your Master's degree), and still never get the tenure-track job. Only 29 percent of university and college teachers are on tenured or tenure track now, down from 40 percent ten years earlier. Jobs will typically have 200 applicants. Winners are usually those from the school with the best pedigree (grads of top 12 Gourmet Report schools generate 75% of profs at top fifty graduate schools in Phil), or the candidate with the best-known advisor, and then gender vastly skews the equation. But, don't forget that the interview trumps everything and, so the high school popularity contest will decide the winners among those chosen for interviews.

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College teaching is different in many ways than the school teaching. The school teaching is better than college teaching for some things while for some cases college teaching is much better. For example, in college teaching they do not care what students learning or not while in school teaching, its teachers responsibility to teach the students with different ways. In college, students are free to learn and teachers are free to teach from any source or example, while in school teaching, teachers are bound to teach only recommended text books, which is bad practice, as students only get the knowledge that what happens not that how it happens.

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The college teaching is much different from school teaching in many ways. Here are few differences amongst them: 1. Care: - In school, teachers care about student performance more in comparison to college teachers. 2. Freedom: - In college, students are free to study anything they want to study but in school students are forced to study all the subjects. 3. Understand: - In college, teachers don't care much about what you understand, they come and give lecture and in schools they ask from each and every student. 4. Time Management: - In schools, you have to go through the time table decided by the school but in colleges there is no particular time table.

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Hi, Though the job of both is to teach the assigned and respective students, there are many things that are very different in a School-Teacher and a College-Professor. A School Teacher educates children and deal with primary and secondary education only. Maybe the teacher teaches only one subject, however, primary teachers are expected to teach a variety of subjects. Anyone who has a diploma or a degree in education course, can apply to becoma a school teacher. A Professor is the one who teaches at the university students and a School Teacher teaches at schools. Therefore, the main difference is, of their place of work. A Professor teaches at a University or a college. Professors basically need to complete a terminal degree in their field. and teach undergraduate, graduate and other professional courses. Hope, I am clear.

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For school teaching, B.Ed is sufficient but if you want to become lecturer in college you must pursuing PhD and completed M.Ed and NET exam.

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