Experience Teaching
As you prepare for any career - especially teaching - you should enhance your skills by choosing part-time jobs, internships, job shadowing and other activities that provide relevant experiences. Consider experiences that enhance your teaching ability, your knowledge of your subject matter and your understanding of the careers for which you are preparing students.

Teaching Ability
The art of teaching combines organizational and presentation skills. You can improve your presentation skills by joining Toastmasters, participating in a local theater group or offering to run meetings for clubs in which you participate. Your visual presentation skills will benefit from learning desktop publishing and web design.

Consider activities which allow you to work directly with children such as day care, Park District programming, summer camps, tutoring and mentoring. Provide yourself with experience working with various ages as well.

Developing your organizational skills at an early age will be a tremendous benefit. Consider activities such as event planning, marketing and management.

Subject Matter
Whatever discipline you have chosen, consider activities which allow you to practice related skills in relevant settings. For instance, if you are a science major consider being a research assistant, participating in environmental field trips or serving as a technical writer. Social studies majors might become involved in political organizations, work with the media or travel with a camera and journal.

Career Correlations
Today's world allows us to combine our talents to create interesting career opportunities. The relevancy of classroom material can be enhanced with an understanding of how the world of work uses various skills. If you have had experience in some of those careers either through internships, job shadowing or part-time jobs, you will be better able to answer the proverbial question: