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What are good majors to take to become an elementary teacher?
I want to become an elementary teacher and I am in my senior year of high school and wondering what good majors are. #teaching #teacher #professors #elementary-education
5 answers
Nisha Prudhomme
Nisha’s Answer
You can choose to major in Education or you can major in anything else and go through Alternative Teacher Certification program. I was a Business and Computer major in college, but later went through the Alt route to become a certified teacher.
Daniela Silva
Daniela’s Answer
The ideal is you get an undergraduate degree in Pedagogy with a specialization in early grades. Throughout the course, you will have the opportunity to perform an internship that will give you experience and pedagogical practice in the area. You can also search for voluntary activities in the area of school reinforcement for children.
Jaclyn Ryan
Jaclyn’s Answer
You'd definitely want to major in "Elementary Education" - most colleges offer this specific major. If you're not totally sure that's what you want to do, you can also pick a more general major.
Maija Klees
Maija’s Answer
I know all the homeroom teachers in my school all have their specialties. It allows them to have full planning experience the all of course have Elementary Ed. degrees with specialties ranging from Science to Social Studies, to literacy, and Math. They divide planning into what their specialties are and in some cases they swap classes to teach only their specialty to both 6th grades for instance.
Gloria Ortiz
Gloria’s Answer
I know several teachers and they most often have a degree in some form of Education - Elementary or Secondary Education. These programs can help you really focus on the audience for your teaching - how do you teach to someone of a certain age? That can be really powerful, since audience awareness is a strategic advantage to your ability to customize how you work.
So now I would want to know this - how do you see yourself being a teacher? Do you have a subject that you gravitate to over others? Elementary education requires a general knowledge of a lot of subjects. The only specialists that I know in Elementary education is a music teacher. So thinking about a music teacher. I would probably actually major in Music with a minor in Elementary Education. In this role, you need to be good at music, like really good, because unteaching a bad habit or behavior is harder than teaching something right the first time.
Gloria