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MechEngDropout
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 Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:18 Post subject: Teachers
Better to get an education degree with a minor in what you hope to teach, or a degree in what you hope to teach, with a minor in education? Or ditch the education BS altogether?
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:25 Post subject:
I didn't know you could get a minor in education?
I majored in Elementary Education and had to do two solid years of concentration. This included classroom observations...small instruction group teaching of students...and an entire semester of student teaching.
I don't know how it's offered as a minor?
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brie k
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:25 Post subject:
What do you want to teach, Mech? Just curious.
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:28 Post subject:
| brie k wrote: | | What do you want to teach, Mech? Just curious. |
3rd grade quantum physics
Seriously, I don't know. And I don't really care - it's more about the job than the subject. I could go for any science or composition/literature. I don't know who I would want to teach... college would be best, but I really don't want to get a masters in physics (or anything else) to teach it. I guess next up would be high school.
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:29 Post subject:
| noley wrote: | I didn't know you could get a minor in education?
I majored in Elementary Education and had to do two solid years of concentration. This included classroom observations...small instruction group teaching of students...and an entire semester of student teaching.
I don't know how it's offered as a minor? |
30+ hours out of just about any major will yield a minor. I assume it's the same with education.
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:33 Post subject:
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:37 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | noley wrote: | I didn't know you could get a minor in education?
I majored in Elementary Education and had to do two solid years of concentration. This included classroom observations...small instruction group teaching of students...and an entire semester of student teaching.
I don't know how it's offered as a minor? |
30+ hours out of just about any major will yield a minor. I assume it's the same with education. |
I'm not sure that's the case, minoring in Ed. At my college, you can get an A.S. in education, but our program does not lead to licensure -- not enough courses I think. You can be an aide with 39 credit hours.
To be a science teacher, for instance, the entire Ed program (not counting all that liberal arts crap everyone has to take), consists of 100 credit hours.
You'd better start now!!
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:39 Post subject:
I think Education is an entirely different animal.
Does your state offer Lateral Entry?
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:47 Post subject:
I was under the impression that as long as you had a degree (in anything) and got certified, you could teach. I know most public school systems require a masters in education, but private doesn't have that requirement. Therefore I could graduate in mechanical engineering, get certification, and teach 9th grade algebra.  If nothing else, I could do Teach for America, where they don't care what your degree is in, and it's part of a program to get a masters in education.
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:48 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | I was under the impression that as long as you had a degree (in anything) and got certified, you could teach. I know most public school systems require a masters in education, but private doesn't have that requirement. Therefore I could graduate in mechanical engineering, get certification, and teach 9th grade algebra. If nothing else, I could do Teach for America, where they don't care what your degree is in, and it's part of a program to get a masters in education. |
sounds like Lateral Entry.
With that, if your state has a teacher shortage, you can go teach and take night class while you get certified.
Look into it, Mech.
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:49 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | MechEngDropout wrote: | | I was under the impression that as long as you had a degree (in anything) and got certified, you could teach. I know most public school systems require a masters in education, but private doesn't have that requirement. Therefore I could graduate in mechanical engineering, get certification, and teach 9th grade algebra. If nothing else, I could do Teach for America, where they don't care what your degree is in, and it's part of a program to get a masters in education. |
sounds like Lateral Entry.
With that, if your state has a teacher shortage, you can go teach and take night class while you get certified.
Look into it, Mech. |
Lateral entry sounds awfully painful... 
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:50 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | | MechEngDropout wrote: | | I was under the impression that as long as you had a degree (in anything) and got certified, you could teach. I know most public school systems require a masters in education, but private doesn't have that requirement. Therefore I could graduate in mechanical engineering, get certification, and teach 9th grade algebra. If nothing else, I could do Teach for America, where they don't care what your degree is in, and it's part of a program to get a masters in education. |
sounds like Lateral Entry.
With that, if your state has a teacher shortage, you can go teach and take night class while you get certified.
Look into it, Mech. |
Lateral entry sounds awfully painful... |
Here comes the freaking ban. 
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:52 Post subject:
| j1miller wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | | MechEngDropout wrote: | | I was under the impression that as long as you had a degree (in anything) and got certified, you could teach. I know most public school systems require a masters in education, but private doesn't have that requirement. Therefore I could graduate in mechanical engineering, get certification, and teach 9th grade algebra. If nothing else, I could do Teach for America, where they don't care what your degree is in, and it's part of a program to get a masters in education. |
sounds like Lateral Entry.
With that, if your state has a teacher shortage, you can go teach and take night class while you get certified.
Look into it, Mech. |
Lateral entry sounds awfully painful... |
Here comes the freaking ban. |
a good moderator sets up the bait...
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:53 Post subject:
| shelflifers wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | | shelflifers wrote: | | j1miller wrote: | | MechEngDropout wrote: | | I was under the impression that as long as you had a degree (in anything) and got certified, you could teach. I know most public school systems require a masters in education, but private doesn't have that requirement. Therefore I could graduate in mechanical engineering, get certification, and teach 9th grade algebra. If nothing else, I could do Teach for America, where they don't care what your degree is in, and it's part of a program to get a masters in education. |
sounds like Lateral Entry.
With that, if your state has a teacher shortage, you can go teach and take night class while you get certified.
Look into it, Mech. |
Lateral entry sounds awfully painful... |
Here comes the freaking ban. |
a good moderator sets up the bait...
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Posted: 05/31/06 - 16:57 Post subject:
| MechEngDropout wrote: | | I know most public school systems require a masters in education... |
Huh? Classroom teachers don't need a Masters. To be a principal you do. Or to get a bump in their good old "union wage scale", but just to get a teaching job doesn't take anything more than a good old BS.
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