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Teacher Scholarship

Zippia Scholarship

Zippia's Teacher Dream Job Scholarship

February 1st, 2021


Application Open

December 31st, 2021


Application Closed

January 2022


Winners Announced

Send your essay in the body of the email (no attachments) to scholarship@zippia.com with the subject line: "My Teacher Dream Job Scholarship Contest Entry".
Terms And Conditions Apply

Who Can Apply

Open to everyone 18 years of age or older.

How It Works

  1. Tell us in 500 words or less, why you want to be a teacher. Describe your dream job to us and tell us WHY this is your dream job. Consider the following in your essay:
    • Why is teaching your dream job?
    • What are you doing to reach your dream job goal?
  2. Our staff will choose one (1) winner.
  3. Your essay will appear on our website so everyone can be inspired by your vision.
  4. Open to any college, university, associates program, junior college, vocational school, or high school students.
  5. Send your essay in the body of the email (no attachments) to scholarship@zippia.com with the subject line: "My Teacher Dream Job Scholarship Contest Entry"

Rules

No purchase necessary. Skill contest. Must be US resident. See official rules for complete details.

Example Teacher Essay

So I’ve decided I want to be an English teacher.

One day in my Freshman English class, I looked at my fellow students and decided that I wanted to be a teacher. We were reciting monologues from Romeo and Juliet, and hardly anyone around me had theirs memorized. The classroom was full of an oppressive and awkward silence before my teacher told us to sit back down with a heavy sigh. I couldn’t understand how someone could be so flippant when it came to their grade. I thought that maybe if I became a teacher, I could help inspire them to put in the effort.

I’ve enrolled in honors and AP English courses throughout high school, and I’ve joined the creative writing club to continue my hobby of storytelling. As a Senior I finally set this direction of my life in stone by applying to colleges as an English major. It feels like the small, innocuous dream of my Freshman self is finally coming true. Despite all this, part of me knows being a teacher may not be the smartest career choice. Teachers don’t get paid a whole lot— I’ve known many who live in shabby apartments and stay up late grading papers well into the morning, coffee in hand. Many claim that kids are hard to work with, especially high school students, who are full of hormones and rebellion and distrust of authority. The rewards hardly outweigh the costs, some say, with the long hours, too-full classrooms, the low pay and the troublemaker kids. They can’t understand why anyone would want to subject themselves to that.

But what they don’t understand is that I’ve long since accepted the lackluster aspects of teaching. I’ve had since Freshman year to mull it over, to discuss with many teachers I look up to about what they think. Every last teacher I talked with told me the same thing: that the reason they became a teacher wasn’t for the pay, or for any physical rewards. In reality, teaching is just as much of a learning experience for the teacher as it is for the students. With every essay read teachers learn a little more, and add a new perspective to their ever-growing view of the world. Freshman year I couldn’t understand why my friends didn’t memorize their monologues, but now I see that there are a million reasons why someone might not. And with that, another mystery of the world is solved. The universe is a little closer to fitting into my jacket pocket.

Being a teacher is like being a thousand people all at once. It’s about understanding, and compassion, and knowing all voices should equally be heard. The voice of the youth is the voice of the future, and I want to hear what they have to say. That’s the real reason I want to be a teacher: because I know I still have so much more to learn, from people who often aren’t considered worth listening to.

Deadline

December 31, 2021 at 11:00 PM EST

The winner will be contacted directly.

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