I am not great at math. I absolutley love learning about the earth and space and I have a passion to teach. Will I be able to become a middle school science teacher even though I am not in the advanced math program in high school? (I am going to be a junior next year.) And what will I have to do in college in order to ecome a science teacher?
Nothing you do in high school matters beyond your GPA.
As to what you should do in college:
There are two ways to become a science teacher
The NUMBER ONE BEST WAY if you want to teach middle school, is to get a degree in education. If you wanted to teach high school, I would recommend getting a degree in science, like biology or geology. But since you’re dealing with younger kids, and you will need to have a broad exposure to science, this is what you should do:
pick a school with a good education program. That will be your major. Your emphasis or minor should be General Sciences, OR your favorite science. Maybe astronomy or biology or whatever it is you like and your college offers. It doesn’t matter what you pick, because you are going to be taking lots of science electives, so you will have the opportunity to take all sorts of things. You will also need some chemistry.
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During college you will have classes that will let you go to middle school classrooms to observe and eventually to do a few lessons of your own. Near the end of college, when you’ve taken all the classes you need, you will then have student teaching. It is usually about 6 weeks of practice teaching in someone else’s classroom.
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You will have to take math classes, but not that many. Probably just algebra, physical science (which is mostly math) and a math class specifically for teachers. So don’t worry about it.
Realize that you will be going to school to learn how to teach middle school AND high school students. So if you change your mind, you will always be able to teach high school kids too, but never elementary students. You won’t be qualified.
September 26th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
Nothing you do in high school matters beyond your GPA.
As to what you should do in college:
There are two ways to become a science teacher
The NUMBER ONE BEST WAY if you want to teach middle school, is to get a degree in education. If you wanted to teach high school, I would recommend getting a degree in science, like biology or geology. But since you’re dealing with younger kids, and you will need to have a broad exposure to science, this is what you should do:
pick a school with a good education program. That will be your major. Your emphasis or minor should be General Sciences, OR your favorite science. Maybe astronomy or biology or whatever it is you like and your college offers. It doesn’t matter what you pick, because you are going to be taking lots of science electives, so you will have the opportunity to take all sorts of things. You will also need some chemistry.
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During college you will have classes that will let you go to middle school classrooms to observe and eventually to do a few lessons of your own. Near the end of college, when you’ve taken all the classes you need, you will then have student teaching. It is usually about 6 weeks of practice teaching in someone else’s classroom.
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You will have to take math classes, but not that many. Probably just algebra, physical science (which is mostly math) and a math class specifically for teachers. So don’t worry about it.
Realize that you will be going to school to learn how to teach middle school AND high school students. So if you change your mind, you will always be able to teach high school kids too, but never elementary students. You won’t be qualified.
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