I just got a job working for an Elementary school! It's really close to my house!
That's awesome! My cousin recently got a PHD in education.
That is awesome ! Degrees like that take a lot of time. we teach children from kindergarten through the fifth grade. 
Teachers are very important in our world. What type of training is required to become a teacher?
There are a number of academic and professional degrees that allow you to become a registered teacher. We focus on teaching kids social skills, mathematics, and language.
So an elementary teacher teaches multiple subjects as opposed to high school teachers who sometimes focus on only one?
Yeah that's correct, we focus on a wide variety of subjects. We are typically teaching children from the ages 4 to 11 years of age. I have to be an expert on many different subjects.
Seems like quite a lot of work! How many children does a teacher typically have to teach?
Well in 2009 there were almost 3.5 million students attending public schools. In my are we typically have a classroom size of 15 to 30 students.