What Type of Teacher Would You Be? Take this Quiz to Find Out

This quiz is sponsored by Success Academy, which is hiring for teaching residents, middle school STEM teachers and middle school humanities teachers. on WayUp now.

The team at Success Academy knows there are particular qualities that make up a great teacher. For starters, they’re passionate about making a difference, flexible, dedicated, and never back down from a challenge. Teaching is one of the most fulfilling careers out there, and it comes with the potential to make a huge impact in students’’ lives. Think you have what it takes to teach? Take this quiz to find out.

Your parents have been calling you nonstop with questions about their new iPhones. You...

Invite your parents (and their tech-challenged friends) over to your apartment for a two-hour iPhone workshop.

Film a series of videos on your phone teaching them how to use all the important features.

Stop by every weekend to answer all of their phone-related questions until they’re pros.

Get them up to speed, then encourage them to teach other parents the ins and outs of navigating a smartphone.

Someone new moves into your building or block. How do you welcome them?

Help them meet new people by inviting them to dinner with your friends.

Volunteer to help them unpack and assemble furniture.

Stop by once they’re settled in to ask if there’s anything they need.

Offer to show them around town.

You’re feeling stuck in one of your classes. What do you do?

Set up a weekly study group for other students who are struggling.

Lock yourself in your dorm room until you’ve memorized all the answers to past quizzes.

Commit to asking even more questions in class—even if they’re embarrassing ones. Odds are, someone else has the same ones.

Put a killer study guide together and share it with your classmates to help them learn the material faster too.

Your friends would vote you most likely to…

Run a successful company one day.

Compete in an marathon.

Spend your vacation time volunteering.

Give a TED Talk (that goes viral).

You’re out picking up lunch and realize you left your wallet at home again. You...

Decide to keep just enough money for lunch in the pockets of all your jeans. That way, you’ll always have enough to cover your food—even when your wallet’s at home.

Build an app that reminds you to grab your wallet as you’re approaching the front door.

Ask the cashier if you can pay him later, then come back ASAP with your wallet (and leave an extra-big tip).

Ask a coworker to lend you money for lunch, then make a point to pay them back ASAP and cover their lunch later in the week to say thanks.

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