Course Highlights

Primary School Teaching

Why become a teacher?

Alison Rasheed is a Year 3 teacher and middle leader at a primary school in NSW. With 27 years of teaching experience, she believes there’s no better job in the world.

Her parents were also teachers, so from a young age she was able to see the meaning behind the work. She now understands firsthand their passion for teaching.

“I find it so rewarding to have those relationships with little people, knowing you are the third most important person in their lives after their parents,” she says.

Alison also speaks about the opportunities she was afforded by working as a teacher. She was able to teach abroad, travel when her children were young and work in a casual, part-time or full-time capacity as it suited her.

Other benefits of pursuing a career as a primary teacher include job stability and high demand for teachers’ education and skills. You’ll have a career where no two days are the same and you get the chance to impact people’s lives from childhood.