Download or read book Teachers Then and Now written by Roben Alarcon and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2006-01-05 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first teachers in the United States were students who did well in school and were hired to teach other students. Today, teachers must have college degrees to teach. Schools today are larger than those in the past and often have several separate classes at the same grade level.