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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 58976" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>Kathy,</p><p></p><p>You are a good person for me to vent to since you're in the field. </p><p></p><p>Here's my vent. My easy child was in education her first year of college. She wanted to teach early ed very badly. She started taking education classes from day one or she wouldn't graduate on time. She jumped thru hoops learning how to teach math to elementary school kids, she had to write out in words how to add, subtract, etc, so that a second grader would understand. She had to learn how to be creative, make games from scratch that would teach kids certain concepts. She took developmental psychology so she would undserstand the different stages kids go through. She learned different teaching methods and had to practice them all. She listened to professors tell her there were no teaching jobs in our area and how she would never make any money. That if she wanted a job she had to move south.</p><p></p><p>It finally got to her and she didn't want to move so she switched majors to business. One of the things she was worried about was that education was so specialized that she wouldn't be qualified for anything else if she couldn't find a job. Also here you have to specialize either in early, intermediate, or secondary in order to get a job in that area. If you do early ed you can't teach middle. </p><p></p><p>So she changes majors to human resources hoping she will find a job in business that deals with teaching job skills or at least emplyee benefits. None of her education courses counted toward her business degree so now she has to go every summer if she wants to graduate in four years.</p><p></p><p>But the kicker is, her cousin who graduated from college in May with a degree in business, moved to Phoenix and couldn't find a job she liked so she got a job teaching first grade in a charter school. She never took any education classes. She didn't have to learn how to teach math or phonics or how to make up games that taught large motor skills or how to use a certain education method or even understand developmental stages. I love my niece but she never ever expressed an interest in teaching and was never good with little kids. So she gets the job and my easy child who loves kids and would make a wonderful teacher isn't doing it.</p><p></p><p>So I am wondering why anyone up here would major in education when they can major in photography or ceramics or english or physical ed and get out and move down south which is what they would have to do anyway if they wanted a job, and become a teacher with no education background.</p><p></p><p>Am I right that this just seems not fair to those graduates who have a degree in education? Up here if you have a degree in education, most businesses don't want you because you are not qualified. Should it work the same way the other way around? Especially when you are talking about teaching our kids?</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 58976, member: 59"] Kathy, You are a good person for me to vent to since you're in the field. Here's my vent. My easy child was in education her first year of college. She wanted to teach early ed very badly. She started taking education classes from day one or she wouldn't graduate on time. She jumped thru hoops learning how to teach math to elementary school kids, she had to write out in words how to add, subtract, etc, so that a second grader would understand. She had to learn how to be creative, make games from scratch that would teach kids certain concepts. She took developmental psychology so she would undserstand the different stages kids go through. She learned different teaching methods and had to practice them all. She listened to professors tell her there were no teaching jobs in our area and how she would never make any money. That if she wanted a job she had to move south. It finally got to her and she didn't want to move so she switched majors to business. One of the things she was worried about was that education was so specialized that she wouldn't be qualified for anything else if she couldn't find a job. Also here you have to specialize either in early, intermediate, or secondary in order to get a job in that area. If you do early ed you can't teach middle. So she changes majors to human resources hoping she will find a job in business that deals with teaching job skills or at least emplyee benefits. None of her education courses counted toward her business degree so now she has to go every summer if she wants to graduate in four years. But the kicker is, her cousin who graduated from college in May with a degree in business, moved to Phoenix and couldn't find a job she liked so she got a job teaching first grade in a charter school. She never took any education classes. She didn't have to learn how to teach math or phonics or how to make up games that taught large motor skills or how to use a certain education method or even understand developmental stages. I love my niece but she never ever expressed an interest in teaching and was never good with little kids. So she gets the job and my easy child who loves kids and would make a wonderful teacher isn't doing it. So I am wondering why anyone up here would major in education when they can major in photography or ceramics or english or physical ed and get out and move down south which is what they would have to do anyway if they wanted a job, and become a teacher with no education background. Am I right that this just seems not fair to those graduates who have a degree in education? Up here if you have a degree in education, most businesses don't want you because you are not qualified. Should it work the same way the other way around? Especially when you are talking about teaching our kids? Nancy [/QUOTE]
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