Most likely there will not be any young teachers because no body wants to be a teacher anymore. But I am getting my masters in education now and all of my classmates are in their mid 20’s late 30’s. So I feel that people make up their minds later to teach. I graduated college at 21 and I just decided to go back to school at 24, so its rare to see a young teacher.

Most teachers realy start to teach inderpendantly at the age of 25 to around 30 so you should fit in. But younger teachers always become class room assistances.

The youngest teacher I’ve ever under with is 28 when I was on my last year for High School. Yeah, you’re right… You can hardly see very young teacher nowadays and I do hope I’ll start as younger than 28 to start teaching cause it’s a breakthrough for me ^_^

It’ll depend what kind of school you teach at. If you are at a school where there’s low turnover and there aren’t many vacancies, there probably won’t be many younger teachers. If, on the other hand, you teach at a school that sometimes has trouble finding teachers or has more turnover, you’ll find more that are younger. It’s more likely you’ll be at the second type of school because that is just where more jobs are.

In the area where I work, my county pays well, and it tends to “steal” good, more experienced teachers from the surrounding counties. Those other counties tend to hire more younger teachers since they can’t find experienced ones. There’s a big teacher shortage in my state, so that makes the counties happy if they are able to hire ANY qualified teacher, regardless of age.

When I was in high school, I had one teacher who had come back to teach after graduating from that high school 5 years ago, so she was about 23. (In the area where I grew up, it was really hard to find a teaching job, so she was very lucky to get it!) Where I teach now, even though we have older teachers than other counties, we still have quite a few young ones. I was 23 when I began teaching high school last year, and I can think of at least 5 others at my school who are in their early 20s.

Most of the graduates from teacher preparation programs are about 22-23. If they look for jobs in areas where there are a lot of vacancies, most of them find work right away and begin teaching in their early 20s. If they can’t find a job and need to sub or be an assistant for awhile, they could be a few years older by the time they begin teaching.

In short, chances are there’ll be a few other teachers close your age at your school when you begin teaching.

I started teaching at 23. So did many of the teachers in my “class”. I was only 2 years older than my oldest students. That was weird. Anyways. It is so difficult to become a teacher these days because of all the hoops that are required that teachers are starting older and older. Most teacher’s pay isn’t enough to pay off student loans or enough to live comfortably, if you live by yourself. The average time someone spends in education is 3-5 years coming out of college.

It isn’t an easy job and with all the restrictions, testing (of you and your students) and the high levels of stress, many find it as a good second or third career.

Another thing that you mentioned “I’m asking because in high school I just don’t remember any young teacher…the youngest teacher I had was in her early 30’s”. As I stated I was 23 and my students thought I was in the age range of 20 to 40. It’s all about perspective.

I started last year when I was 22. At the high school I teach at there are a few other younger teachers. Three were hired last year and two more were hired this year that were pretty much straight out of college. It just really depends on the school. I know that when I was in high school there didn’t seem to be many younger teachers, but then again, most of my students guess that I’m in my late 20s to 30s. So I could have just not realized that they were as young as they were.

It really depends on where you get a job. In my district, there are MANY older people retiring, and 23yo’s being hired. Other districts will be more closed to new hires due to budget restraints and layoffs. But there is a national trend to hiring young teachers…. Best of luck.