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Why I Want to be An Educator:
Student Members Spill the Beans

Amelia Sims of Alabama dreamt of being a teacher from the beginning. She said in a recent video that as a child she'd pretend to be the teacher and make her little sister be the student. She described herself as "young and spunky" entering the profession. "I think kids need that." Find out what excites her about helping kids learn, and what she recommends to improve their achievement.

Special Education teacher and Student Member Jennie Levy of Florida described her "fantasy classroom" in this video segment. Long after she retires she hopes her students will say, "She may have been funny, she might have been goofy, but she made a huge difference."

The Student National Education Association (SNEA) was founded in 1937 as a department of NEA. The SNEA Representative Assembly almost 50 years later voted to end its affiliation status and merge with NEA as a program.

Today we have:

60,000 members
more than 900 college/university campus chapters
50 state programs
a national, full-time, elected chairperson
a nine-member, appointed advisory committee of student members
2 national conferences -- Summer Leadership Conference (June), and Fall Connections Conference (November).

We strive to:

promote community partnerships
foster leadership through pre-professional opportunities and peer mentoring
promote membership among diverse populations
provide networking opportunities
supplement formal teacher-education training
promote the national accreditation of teacher-education training
recruit and retain pre-professional members, and
maintain a presence at all NEA conferences.

The NEA Student Program is Essential

Nearly 2 million teachers across the country retired in 2007. We must take aggressive steps to replace these educators and ensure a quality teacher in every classroom. NEA supports teachers who are well qualified and prepared for their careers.

Also, one out of three NEA Student Program members becomes an NEA leader.

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