It is never an easy job to teach at elementary or high school levels. Teacher training, however, can be a pretty tricky business as well. Teacher preparation programs are required to strike up a delicate balance between theory and practice. Those teaching students are required to meet quantifiable measures of success governed predominantly by test scores while inspiring far less tangible values such as creativity and curiosity. Here is a look at some of the things that teachers are taught as part of a training program, things that can help them stalwarts in their profession. Learning How to Teach Though undervalued, this is the most valuable aspect of teaching. Instruction forms a part of both an art and a science, and is all about the intangible feel for a situation melded with having a comprehensive view of where the learning should lead to and how one can get there. It is both a process as well as a constant evaluation of the process. This is something that ge