Both these professions had the advantage of teaching ruthlessness combined with adaptability.
Insisting that all her students can learn, she points to a big advantage of teaching at Rikers: small class sizes, often fewer than 10 students per teacher.
The advantage of teaching delivered by distance methods - post, fax and now predominantly email and the web - is that it allows for flexibility, and this is a feature that many MA Tesol course providers have exploited.
There are many disadvantages to such isolation, but the great advantage was teaching a full-year course all by myself, instead of taking part in committee-built courses like the one I took in graduate school.
Many autistic children fixate on their special interests, and this passion can be used as an advantage when teaching.
Though seemingly harsh, the schedule has advantages for teaching staff, says Mr Paran.
Being active from an early age has significant advantages and teaching a child to hop, skip, jump and enjoy themselves is key to teaching them how to incorporate exercise into daily life.
Education Minister Leighton Andrews told BBC Wales: "I want to ensure that we get literacy and numeracy right in primary school because if we get it right, then it will have major advantages in teaching in secondary school, not just in the ability to learn, but also it will have an impact on attention, behaviour and attendance".
Although it was found more difficult to use compared to a bronchoscope, the iPhone modified bronchoscope offered several advantages for teaching fibreoptic technique.
The iPhone modified bronchoscope, in its current configuration, was found to be more difficult to use compared with the Glidescope® and unmodified bronchoscope; however it offered several advantages for teaching fibreoptic intubation technique when video-assisted bronchoscopy was unavailable.
