Advice for New Teachers and Those Considering a Teaching Career

For new and prospective teaching colleagues, we offer these pages of resources:

And Don't Forget Our NCLG LIFT: Latin~Inspiring Future Teachers Initiative

How can we all encourage more students to enter the teaching profession? Through motivational activities, sharing, and outreach! 

Please try each year at least once to speak to each of your classes about teaching as a profession and also the shortage of qualified teachers to maintain existing programs and to expand by creating new programs across the country. Our L.I.F.T. Grant could help you, if you are planning a special activity.  Read more, below...

Since 2003, the National Committee for Latin and Greek has sponsored an important national initiative to encourage high school Latin students, university Classics majors and graduates to choose a career in teaching.

The NCLG sponsors this initiative as a cooperative venture with the American Classical League, the Society for Classical Studies, and with additional support of various regional and state classical organizations. We wish to engage all Classicists at all levels of instruction in the business of outreach among students to insure that our Latin, Greek, and Classics classrooms have all the teachers they need. ACTFL is partnering with Educators Rising to directly address and combat the current world language teacher shortage in the United States. The aim of this program is to help teachers expose their students to the incredible possibilities that teaching a world language can bring. Get started exploring a career in language teaching today with their "Get Inspired" modules.

The future of our profession literally depends upon recruiting, training, and mentoring future generations of teachers, instructors and professors. Some areas have shortages of qualified Latin teachers and there are always reports of programs that are discontinued because a new teacher cannot be easily found. We want to help change this! Our future teachers need to reflect the cultural diversity of American classrooms, embrace “Latin for All,” and continue to create methodologies to address the wide spectrum of students we wish to reach today.