<p>My daughter is in her 3rd year of college. She is double majoring in Education & pyschology..</p>
<p>Here is the problem. We are so confused so sorry if I go on & on!!! My daughter is thinking about finishing her Psy degree and then going to get her masters in Education. Not one person at her college will tell her anything about doing this. Is it a good idea? Is it better to get her BS and then go get her masters after she graduates in another 2 years? or is it better to graduate next year with a BS in PSY and then go to get her masters in education?
She has a few people that are thinking about do this but we are still unsure if it is the best route to go. Also I was wondering if schools offer any type of maybe working to get this master program paid off?
She has a 4.0 average, and was offered two internships in psy already but she had denied them because of all her educations classes she needs to take and all her internships with education. She love both degrees, but leaning more toward Psy with teaching college level classes so we know she would need her PHD also..</p>
<p>Sorry if I'm confusing you all in my questions</p>
<p>Your post is confusing. Are you asking if your daughter should just get a degree in psychology versus a double major psy/education degree? Are you saying it’ll take 2 years to complete the double major versus only 1 year to get a psychology degree?</p>
<p>If so, it depends on your/her finances and goals. If it takes an extra year and costs more to get the education degree, she’s missing out on the opportunity cost of a years worth of salary and experience only gained through working. I don’t think she’ll recover those costs with an additional education degree. </p>
<p>If she wants to teach psy college courses, she should finish up her psy degree and then enroll in a psy PhD program (I don’t know how much work experience psy PhD programs normally require) and forget the education degree since that is not necessary.</p>
<p>Sorry about being not clear… Let me try again.
Where we are located you have to double major if you want to be a teacher. She picked PSY (research) and Education ( elementary) she is almost done with you BS in psy and she has about another two years for BS in elementary education to go, that will include her internships and student teaching… </p>
<p>Her question ( mine also) was if she just finish her BS in psy and get out in the fall of next year, drop her BS of education but do her masters of elementary instead… Would that be better? What are the advantages or disadvantage of doing something like that?
She would go full time into the master program and finish in a year, compared to 2 years to get her BS in teaching</p>
<p>She has found out one disadvantage was she cannot teach when she gets out, she would have to wait until she receives her masters, where before she could teach right away and work toward her master. She needs to get her masters anyway within I think 5 years or she loses her degree…</p>
<p>If I’m still confusing let me know…</p>
<p>It is not better or worse. If she starts with a master’s degree, she will start higher on the salary scale to begin with. On the other hand, depending on your state, elementary teaching positions are quite competitive and with districts looking to cut costs, they sometimes want to find people who are lower on the scale rather than higher. The advantage that she will have with the BS in Education is that she will have more time in the classroom before she starts teaching. This will help her gain experience and possibly do some networking. If the master’s program is a one year program, she will not get much classroom time. In other words, she will have much more theoretical knowledge but not nearly as much practical. </p>
<p>The flip side is that it can be very draining for new teachers to work full time AND take credits towards a masters although many of them do it. Overall, it is MY opinion that if elementary education is her goal, she will be more likely to get a job with the BS and the practical experience that comes with it rather than the Master’s. Others may have different opinions.</p>
<p>That you Shennie that does make it more clear…</p>