Grad Degree In Education

Graduate School
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<p>I graduated with a BS math degree this fall, and had been planning on entering the insurance world for a while, but have recently been having second thoughts. I've been seriously been thinking about becoming a high school math teacher. It's something I think I really want to do, and think I could excel at, especially at an advanced high school level.</p>

<p>So though I got a job with an insurance company out of college, I decided I'm going to apply to grad schools with the intention of getting a Masters in Education to become a high school math teacher. I took the GRE with no preperation, but got a decent score.</p>

<p>Problem is I have no working experience in the education field. Is there anyone with knowledge that could help me with advice in this career path? Are there any grad programs that will get you some good classroom experience?</p>

<p>I don't think I can work in an office as my career. I want to change the world, if only for a few HS kids at a time. I know I can teach math bigger and better than my high school teachers.</p>

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<p>Look for programs where you can volunteer in classrooms or as an after-school tutor.</p>

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<p>I was basically in the same position as you a year ago. I studied applied math for my undergrad and thought I might like teaching upper level high school classes. I’ll warn you that it’s not going to challenge you mathematically. It might seem like it at first, because you’d think you have to have this really deep and sophisticated understanding to be able to explain it, but good teaching really is not about that as much as it is about communication and having a deep and sophisticated understanding of your students. If you’re teaching AP calculus, you may have forgotten some of the less common integration techniques or something like that, but you’ll pick it up quickly because you’ve used them before and that’s basically it for your own learning and growth. That was a pill that I personally could never swallow, and I ultimately decided to give up teaching after a year.</p>